Gilbert cleared our staus up pretty clearly. We are a separate entity from the Baltimore Maritime Museum (BMM). They actually have custody of Torsk. The Torsk Volunteer Association (TVA) is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that does all the maintenance and restration work aboard Torsk. BMM helps us to fund many of our restoration projects and they fund the periodic shipyard period. TVA does its own fundraising and has a separate budget for accomplishing restoration projects. Our volunteers also do many many hours of research to find and procure missing equipment. We have acquired missing Sonar consoles, radio equipment, ECM gear, valves, bunks, torpedoes, and much, much more. Anytime strip ship events occur at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, James River Reserve Fleet, Bremerton Naval Shipyard, and other locations, you will find Torsk Volunteers present. Torsk is slowly but surely being restored to its 1965 appearance and operational condition. We have many people to thank including Rich Pekelney, NAVSEA personnel, and all of our tremendous crewmembers (well over 120). I personally believe that our volunter crew is as good or better than any crew that ever manned a submarine in the US Navy. We have a long way to go, but, with this crew of ours, I believe Torsk can be the best of the Museum boats in the next few years. A far ry from where we started out about ten years ago.
