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* TIGHAR # 0142CE. | * TIGHAR # 0142CE. | ||
John Clauss is a veteran of seven expeditions to Nikumaroro and has been a TIGHAR member since 1987. He is self-employed, in the business of specialty fabrication for race cars and race sailboats, is an experienced heavy equipment operator and has been a general engineering/hazmat contractor for over twenty years. He also holds a private pilot/ float plane certificate and has been racing sailboats for forty years. | |||
In 1982, he raised an aluminum unlimited hydroplane from the bottom of Lake Tahoe. [http://www.thunderboats.org/history/history0125.html Skip-A-Long] had been resting at a depth of five hundred feet since 1949 and is now on display at a local museum. | |||
John was born and raised in Sacramento California and has resided on the California side of Lake Tahoe for the past thirty three years. | |||
* Veteran [[TIGHAR]] expedition member.[[Image:Clauss-kap.png|thumb|John flying a kite, Niku V. Photo by Lonnie Schorer.]] | * Veteran [[TIGHAR]] expedition member.[[Image:Clauss-kap.png|thumb|John flying a kite, Niku V. Photo by Lonnie Schorer.]] | ||
** [[Niku I]] | ** [[Niku I]] | ||
Revision as of 18:16, 17 October 2009
- TIGHAR # 0142CE.
John Clauss is a veteran of seven expeditions to Nikumaroro and has been a TIGHAR member since 1987. He is self-employed, in the business of specialty fabrication for race cars and race sailboats, is an experienced heavy equipment operator and has been a general engineering/hazmat contractor for over twenty years. He also holds a private pilot/ float plane certificate and has been racing sailboats for forty years.
In 1982, he raised an aluminum unlimited hydroplane from the bottom of Lake Tahoe. Skip-A-Long had been resting at a depth of five hundred feet since 1949 and is now on display at a local museum.
John was born and raised in Sacramento California and has resided on the California side of Lake Tahoe for the past thirty three years.
