[PSUBS-MAILIST] Great White mods

Joe Perkel josephperkel at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 12 13:02:56 EST 2014


I'm wondering did Alvin get a tattoo or earring for his 50th!?

Joe

On Feb 12, 2014, at 12:05 AM, Alan <alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Joe,
> yep, didn't think about this trip till about 9 days before I left.
> Been thoroughly enjoying it. We had Alvin's 50th Birthday party tonight, & I managed to
> corner a G.L. certifier for a few hours as well as yack with the team from Curacao, 
> Phil's operations manager Jeff Heaton, Will Kohnen, the Spanish team building the ictineu 3
> & a chemist from Blanson who is doing a session on view ports.
> Well worth the trip, hope nobodies jealous.
> Alan
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On 11/02/2014, at 12:13 am, Joe Perkel <josephperkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Alan,
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>> Globe trotting again I see! :)
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>> Looking forward to the interesting tidbits you can gleam from your trip. 
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>> Joe
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>> On Feb 10, 2014, at 11:00 PM, Alan <alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>> Joe,
>>> I'm at the UI convention in New Orleans & there is a session entitled
>>> Re-Purposing of a K250 P-sub into the research tool of the Undersea
>>> Voyager Project. Unfortunately it clashes with 2 other sessions I'm
>>> interested in, however I believe they are videoing the sessions & they
>>> will be available to attendants who pay for them. Scott might want
>>> to make the session video available to people. I'll keep you posted when 
>>> I get it anyway.
>>> Alan
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>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On 10/02/2014, at 9:33 pm, Joe Perkel <josephperkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> Best views so far Pete, thanks!
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>>>> Note the LCD screens mounted over the front port, neat as a pin!
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>>>> Joe
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>>>> On Monday, February 10, 2014 6:26 PM, Pete Niedermayr <freepetesub at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> Here's link to some Great White mod vids
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>>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/mx5man2005/feed?activity_view=3
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>>>> On Mon, 2/10/14, vbra676539 at aol.com <vbra676539 at aol.com> wrote:
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>>>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Great White mods
>>>> To: personal_submersibles at psubs.org
>>>> Date: Monday, February 10, 2014, 8:53 AM
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>>>> I stand
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>>>> From: Alan <alanlindsayjames at yahoo.com>
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>>>> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
>>>> <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
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>>>> Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 11:41 am
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>>>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Great White mods
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>>>> vance,
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>>>> we've just done "Am I a dork" &
>>>> "tampon filters"
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>>>> we will be confusing a lot of people.
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>>>> Alan
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>>>> Sent from my iPad
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>>>> On 10/02/2014, at 8:18 am, vbra676539 at aol.com
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> Vance
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>>>> From: hank pronk <hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca>
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>>>> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
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>>>> Sent: Mon, Feb 10, 2014 8:20 am
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>>>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Great White mods
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>>>> Hank 
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>>>> I think the cable is 240lbs so I could tie it to
>>>> a soft float like an inner tube even.  Not a bad
>>>> idea!  
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>>>> Your hatch closure should work fine, I like to
>>>> pull a vacuum also to hold the hatch tight.
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>>>> Hank
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>>>> Ive just
>>>>   pratted about all weekend making a ludicrous hatch locking
>>>> mechanism and just reading this article on Great White,
>>>> he used a much better idea.  Ratchet straps. 
>>>> This would have been a lot easier!  see pic.
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>>>> Kind Regards
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>>>> 19:17, Joe Perkel <josephperkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> 2014 2:07 PM, "JimToddPsub at aol.com" <JimToddPsub at aol.com> wrote:
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>>>> If you got to http://www.underseavoyagerproject.org/ and
>>>> scroll down to the Mission Video you'll see some shots
>>>> of the interior, but there is no description of the
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>>>> Here's another video before its latest
>>>> makeover:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-XGT8rPZs8
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>>>> In a message dated 2/8/2014 10:26:39 A.M. Central
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>>>> There is a photo somewhere of that subs interior. One
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>>>> I'd like to know what those are as they give the
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>>>> Here's another article showing the external mods to
>>>> Great White.  It doesn't look much like a K-250
>>>> anymore.  There's a photo gallery about 70% of the
>>>> way down.  -Jim
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>>>> http://californiadiver.com/undersea-voyager-project-completes-final-submarine-test-dives/
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