[PSUBS-MAILIST] deep test plan

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Web Maynard built his K-350 and took Kittredge at his word. He dove it to test depth in 100 foot increments. DOVE IT, mind you. As in, climbed aboard and went on down there himself. He didn't see the problem. The hull was okay. He knew that from the start and figured a guy with a flashlight and a handy crescent wrench was safer than sending all that money down on the end of a string. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it worked just fine. Web just shrugged when I raised an eyebrow. "What was going to happen?" he asked. "Piddly little leaks, maybe. Nothing more." And he didn't even have those. The little K just went about its business, pretty as you please. He did that up in the Finger Lakes in New York, one of which has a 500 foot plus hole somewhere. Quite a guy, old Web. You gotta love him for sheer balls. He was a professional fire fighter. Plenty of nerve to go around, those folks.
Vance



-----Original Message-----
From: James Frankland <jamesf at guernseysubmarine.com>
To: personal_submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 11:02 am
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] deep test plan


Speaking of prattling, you guys are still prattling under the heading Great White Mods. Gonna be hard for the historians to track this down in a hundred years. 
Vance
 
James,
What is your plan for your deep test?
Hank 
 
AHA! new subject title!
 
Plan for the deep test is to take it out to sea and sink it down.  I'll rig up some sort of lift bag arrangement to bring it up.  Ive got 60m of water fairly close in, plus i can have a diver with it at that depth, so that should be at least a start.  If thats ok, i plan to take it out to 150m of water, which is quite a bit further out.  There is a boat here that is an old navy landing craft (fought in the Falklands war) and has been fitted with a hiab crane.  They use it for shipping stores to the smaller islands.  Im hoping to use that for the big test.  I have to just ask the bloke at the right moment...
 
James
 
 

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