[PSUBS-MAILIST] Emergency Buoy

[Alec Smyth]

Yep, it is about a 10 minute improvement that will prevent that. The buoy
presses on the reel to prevent the latter from moving until the buoy is
released. The press point has to be made slightly more aggressive to hold
it fast when there is wave motion under tow.

Typical little lesson learned!


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Alan <alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I don't think Alec will mind me mentioning this.
>  After Alec & Steve's epic dive, which preceded with them being towed for
> hours in Snoopy;
> It was discovered that the cord on the emergency release buoy was tangled
> & wouldn't have
> been  operational if they had wanted to deploy it.
> It was probably all the wave motion through towing, hitting the drum &
> causing it to spool
> & birds nest.
> They dived without opening the hatch, so weren't aware of the problem.
> I am not sure of the release mechanism that Alec uses, but this is another
> thing that needs
> to be thought about in design & operation.
> Alan
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
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