[PSUBS-MAILIST] first dive

[Steve McQueen]

Good Luck!


On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 11:19 AM, hank pronk <hanker_20032000 at yahoo.ca>wrote:

> I am leaving tomorrow morning for Kootenay Lake, I am doing a test dive.
> I am tired of waiting for winter to let go, I cant work on my barge.  Gamma
> is all loaded up and tarped up.  I can test the propulsion, and dive to
> safe depths.  I can not afford the 3k for batteries at the moment, so I
> have four batteries removed from my commercial truck sitting on the floor
> of Gamma.  I have the battery box filled with 480 lbs of scrap bits of
> steel.  It will be crowded inside :-) .  I am carrying the scrubber inside
> the truck to keep it warm.  It may be snowing out there, but that adds to
> the adventure.  I also replaced the mbt windows with steel plates, I was
> intending to drop her to 1,000 feet first.  I do not trust the condition of
> the mbt windows to handle unknown conditions at 1,000 feet.  I will leave
> the plates in place until I get the deep test done.
> Hank
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