PL wrote:
>
> Sky > wrote in
> :
>
> > Gloria P wrote:
> >>
> >> Bob Ezrin wrote:
> >> > Sometime around Sat, 21 Feb 2009 08:03:50 -0500, "Ed Pawlowski"
> >> > > claimed:
> >> >
> >> >> http://www.packagingdigest.com/artic...927931642.html
> >> >>
> >> >> ANSA) - Chiavari, February 17 - A Ligurian wine maker is preparing
> >> >> to drop 6,200 bottles of spumante into the sea off the coast of
> >> >> Portofino where they will mature on the ocean floor in the world's
> >> >> first experiment of its kind. Piero Lugano of the Cantina Bisson
> >> >> winery said the bottles will spend 18 months on the sea bed at a
> >> >> depth of 70 metres, a near-constant temperature of 15 degrees
> >> >> centigrade, and with an almost total absence of light.
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Time to dust off my old scuba gear!
> >>
> >> To 70 meters? I doubt it.
> >>
> >> gloria p
> >
> > Heheh, I'm no diver, but I had to wonder at 70 meters too, and with
> > regular scuba gear? Somehow, I rather doubt that?
>
> It's a possible. It couldn't be 'a run in the middle of the night to get a
> few hundred bottles' thing though. It'd require a lot of planning..... and
> cylinders.

Agreed, but the keyword I used was "regular"! Besides, what sorts of
seafood is to be had at that depth (70+ meters)?

Sky, who'd rather dive than fly!

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