How am i supposed to live vicariously through y'all if you don't get anything built?!
Most of you seem to live next to fairly clear water that would be good for ROV missions, while i am currently living in shitwater USA, where the water is so full of algae, pollution and silt you can't see light from a diving light pointed at your face from an arm's length away. So unless i want to navigate by looking at the screen of a $1k sonar unit i'm SOL.
This forum seems to be a well-designed format for ROV enthusiasts, but nobody is posting any new stuff. Believe it or not, i assure you, most of y'all make WAY more money than i do, although i have way more free time...So get BUSY! You don't need to finish college, just drop out (unless they have a really big pool or marine archeology department. And lets be serious...you could sneak in to those). Most of the things you are paying them to teach you will be outdated or useless by the time you graduate anyway. Use what's left of that student loan to buy ROV parts. Or at least be able to pay it off sooner...You're still young! Go get an intern job at an underwater salvage company that has some really cool ROV's. They prefer gamers to college graduates anyway, because you are better than the old guys at using an Xbox controller. You'll learn way more working (and have more fun) than you would listening to some opinionated liberal professor drone on about a subject that was outdated before He graduated.
And all you retired guys...WTH? Use some of that retirement money you're raking in to buy parts! You don't need an $80k motor coach...you won't use it more than 7 or 8 times anyway...the desert air in Quartzite Arizona in the winter is so dry you'll just get nosebleeds, and none of the locals respect snowbirds, no matter what they say behind those false smiles. Buy the old bag some knitting needles and yarn to keep her occupied, maybe a new vacume cleaner <snicker>, and get to building a really awesome ROV! You'll have tons more fun cruising around the bottom of Lake Mead (it's getting closer every day), or Lake Pleasant Arizona, than you would sweating and swatting mosquitoes in some fishing boat in a Minnesota swamp. Enclose and insulate that old used pontoon boat and use cold lake water pumped from 30-40ft down, through some car radiators with a 12V blower, to air-condition the cabin so you can operate your ROV in comfort. Buy a cheap chinese LED projector and a cheap screen off of Amazon so you can see the scene on the big screen!
You know what Mr. Strickland would say about you?...
"You know what you are, McFly? You're a Slacker!" (smacks you upside the head) "I knew your father, he was a Slacker too! No McFly ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!"
j/k
