[PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma test dive

[Vance Bradley via Personal_Submersibles]

Told you. Easy.
Vance

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> On Aug 8, 2014, at 10:01 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Pete,
> I have Gamma about 2 lb negative I dump all the air in the ballast tanks, then start sinking.  As I am sinking, I just give a swirt of air, with some practice I am able to stop and hover.  It is way easier than I though it would be.  
> Hank--------------------------------------------
> On Fri, 8/8/14, Pete Niedermayr via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma test dive
> To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Received: Friday, August 8, 2014, 9:46 PM
> 
> 
> Hank,
> How you stopping and hovering. Are you weighted to  neutral
> buoyancy?Are you riding the bubble? Doesn't Gamma use
> forward motion and a dive plain for depth control?
> 
> Pete 
> 
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> On Fri, 8/8/14, hank pronk via
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> wrote:
> 
>  Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
> Gamma test dive
>  To: personal_submersibles at psubs.org
>  Date: Friday, August 8, 2014, 7:45 PM
> 
>  Today I dove Gamma to 95
> feet in
>  Kimbasket Lake (bush Harbour)  the
> visibility was
>  awful.
> 
> Maybe 2 feet at best.  Big mystery though, when I dive
>  to 95 feet, in a matter of 5 min the pressure
> inside drops
>  by 500 feet.  The pressure
> stays right on perfect until
>  I go deeper. 
> My theory, the water is glacier fed, very
> 
> cold at depth causing the temp inside the sub to drop,
>  creating negative pressure.  Could that be
> it? 
>  Vance, did that happen in the north
> sea?  
>  On a positive note, I can stop in
> the water Colum at any
>  depth and hover.  I
> can surface and stop at ten feet
>  and
> hover.
>  Hank 
> 
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