Sunday, June 29, 2014

It's a Sub, Bub

D'OH! I just realized that I set the "publish" time totally incorrectly! Instead of going "Iive" at the usual 12:01 AM, here it is after 4 o'clock in the afternoon and it still hadn't gone up. Arg!!

Here's a familiar view of the submarine lagoon circa 1960; one of the subs sits tied to the dock (even though it is on a track… I guess they still floated, sorta). I've always loved the idea of passing through the waterfalls when entering and leaving the "dark ride" portion of the attraction. Ingenious! Monorail tracks aplenty cross overhead.


Next, a view from a sub's porthole, looking at the briny blue. The water appears kind of turbid here… in other photos it looks much clearer. Not sure if that has to do with filtration or what. Anyway, if you saw this photo out of context, it could pass for a genuine under-the-sea glimpse, don't you think?


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8 comments:

  1. MRaymond4:28 PM

    I wanted to arrange a search party to find out where you went.

    I always wondered about the sub tracks. Does the sub actually ride a track or is it a tether, like the Mark Twain?

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  2. K. Martinez5:48 PM

    Love underwater images of the Submarine Voyage. The turbidity actually enhances the image. Thanks, Major.

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  3. Alonzo P Hawk6:57 PM

    If'n it was mid 60's I'd say the haze in the water could be attributed to the Coppertone dissolving off our lovely mermaids.

    Oh well musta been a few ice cream cones dropped off the Monorail platform. We all know Anaheim tap water is clear as crystal.

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  4. Anonymous7:59 PM

    The subs float. They each have 90,000 pounds of ballast (lead) so they float at the level they do (think how difficult it is to mostly submerge a sausage-shaped balloon in the pool). They follow a trench (see some of the GDB photos of the drained lagoon), using fore and aft guide wheels (actually similar to what the motor boat cruise used).

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  5. K. Martinez8:15 PM

    As Pennywise the Clown used to say, "We all float down here!".

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  6. Melissa12:05 PM

    Is that a real fish or a halubutronic?

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  7. Anonymous2:08 PM

    The Jungle Cruise uses a rail on which the fore and aft guides run on. Not a trench!

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  8. Anonymous2:59 PM

    I was talking about the Motor Boat Cruise, not the Jungle cruise.

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