This is J. Simmons from Mach 30 (<a href="http://mach30.org/">http://mach30.org/</a>).  To answer the question about fines and jail time for ITAR violations, check out this part of the Wikipedia article to get an idea of how far the US government will go to enforce it.<div>
<br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations#Enforcement">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_Regulations#Enforcement</a> </div><div><br></div><div>
For more info, check out the Annotated ITAR (<a href="http://www.ndia.org/Resources/ExportImportComplianceResources/Pages/AnnotatedITAR.aspx">http://www.ndia.org/Resources/ExportImportComplianceResources/Pages/AnnotatedITAR.aspx</a>).  And you can see Mach 30's strategy for dealing with ITAR here (<a href="http://mach30.org/2011/10/25/what-about-itar/">http://mach30.org/2011/10/25/what-about-itar/</a>).  As a side note, the idea of developing technology for an alternate use case like underwater habitats is very much in line with some of our thinking.</div>
<div><br></div><div> -J<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 1:14 PM, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ainut@hiwaay.net" target="_blank">ainut@hiwaay.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

  
    
  
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    <div>Jerry Isdale wrote:<br>
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    </div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5">Underwater systems are also not so readily covered
      under ITAR - that is USA residents can talk about the technical
      details on public forums, conferences, etc. Discussions of tech
      for space itself (eg rockets, guidance, launch etc) will quickly
      attract attention of US Dept of State and can result in big fines
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                    Isdale<br>
                    <a href="http://MauiMakers.com" target="_blank">http://MauiMakers.com</a></div>
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          <div>On Aug 1, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Paul Szymkowiak wrote:</div>
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            This got me to thinking about HSP supporting underwater
            habitats, education and research. 
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            <div>+1 from me. I think that's a great way to engage the
              earth-bound community, and a great way to trial aspects of
              space-bound research prior to deployment in space.</div>
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            <div>> a neighbor who mentioned noticing my participation
              in the OpenROV project</div>
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            <div> Great to see the KickStarter was funded so well!</div>
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            <div>   <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open-source-underwater-robot?" target="_blank">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/openrov/openrov-the-open-source-underwater-robot?</a></div>

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