Sky > wrote in
:

> 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)?



Not much, and whatever is down there is pretty ugly :-)


>
> Sky, who'd rather dive than fly!
>


I agree with you on that one. I *hate* flying!!

Probably the reason why I was always so eager to get out of the planes :-)


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