
Special note: I am not so hot with Russian names, I am certain my pronunciations are comically off. Nevertheless, all rescue attempts failed and investigation showed the whole crew was dead anyway. Think about that - a 430 foot long sub, stuck 350 feet deep - the sub was actually 80 feet longer than the depth it was stuck at. And lying disabled at a depth of 354 feet. It was amazing to me how big this sub was - 118 souls on board.

The Pod was scenically located on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. All songs recorded at the Pod, where we lived for a year and 10 months (with our cat Mandee). The story was fascinating, intriguing and being reported in real-time during the early heydays of the new newsy Internet. From the Shimmy-Disc CD: 'Recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990.

Back in the summer of 2000, the world waited in anticipation, contemplating the fate of the crew of the Kursk, a Russian submarine that was stuck disabled on the floor of the Barents Sea.
