LAKE CRESCENT — From under the water to up in the air and then back on the road to Seattle. That’s where Ellis Adams’ little submarine will go today.
Adams tested the two-person S-101 in Lake Crescent on Tuesday and Wednesday, making five dives in the $640,000 craft.
Today a crane will lift it from the water and place it on a flatbed truck for its trip home to a marina in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.
Adams, co-founder of U.S. Submarines of Seattle, brought the newly refitted S-101 to the east end of Lake Crescent for the lake’s clarity.
Winds, however, whipped up the water and the hoped-for 100-foot visibility dropped to 30 feet Tuesday and 20 feet Wednesday.
Otherwise, the dives were successful, Adams said Wednesday.
“We had a trim issue yesterday, and we’ve pretty much got that under control,” he said.
“The testing is going very well. So far, it’s been a pretty good trip.”
While Lake Crescent wasn’t as crystal clear as he’d hoped, “it’s good enough for what we need to do,” Adams said.
The 32-foot-long S-101, built of steel and acrylic, is for sale.
U.S. Submarines has built five submarines to date.
The sixth, Adams said, is destined to go aboard a large yacht that is docked in New Orleans.
It is not the Vango, the 164-foot yacht built at Westport Shipyard in Port Angeles and launched in February.
