[PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive

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Hi Hank,
Congratulations on Gamma's first dive in a long time.   Lots of folks will 
be eager to see pictures of such an historic event and hear  the tale.
Jim
 
 
In a message dated 5/6/2014 6:11:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
personal_submersibles at psubs.org writes:

Hi  Alan,
We took lots of pictures, I am trying to figure out this stupid  windows 
8.1 :-) I will post them when my wife takes pitty on me and helps me.  
I must say, and I am sure Scott will agree, I will never get over the  
feeling that depth means nothing in a sub.  One minute your looking at  the 
surface the next your 50 feet down looking at weeds and fish, and it feels  the 
same.  Very neat  feeling.
Hank
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On Tue,  5/6/14, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles  
<personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

Subject: Re:  [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive
To: "Personal Submersibles General  Discussion" 
<personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
Received: Tuesday, May  6, 2014, 6:53 PM

Well done
Hank,that's
submarine no 5 or 6 ??.  Look forward to some
pictures.Alan

From: hank pronk  via
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Wednesday, May 7,  2014 10:07 AM
Subject:
[PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive

Today I took Gamma to Premier Lake and did several
dives.   I reached 50 feet on the second dive and my
employee took it out for a 20  foot dive.  
The hatch was leaking on the first dive until I got down  to
20 feet or so.  Never leaked after that.  No other
leaks at  all.
ACQ's are amazing and clear as a bell.  I hit the
bottom a  bunch of times until I figured it out.  
The rudder is
very  effective and the sub is quite speedy going forward
and poor in  reverse.  Acceleration is modest but it
gets going quite well.
The  launch cart worked quite well but was a bit problematic
because it floats  :-) 
I have a small noise to trace from the magnetic drive
coupler  area.
All in all a success 
Hank  
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