[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.

[Alan James via Personal_Submersibles]

Thanks James,as a group we learn more from these fails than successes.Be good to hear the post mortem when you pull them apart.Alan
      From: James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
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 Sent: Monday, July 6, 2015 9:04 PM
 Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.
   
Hi All, I had a failure of a day on Sat.  I put the boat in, and it had aleak.  Not into the pressure hull, so it wasn’t a complete failure, butthe leak was from the forward main tank.  The nearly useless windows that I put on the forward tank were leaking air.  Not just a little bit which I could have put up with it, but loads.  The boat was diving quicker than venting normally.   I pulled it out and went around tightening them up.  Put it back in and it didn't make any difference. It was strange as they have been perfectly ok before.  I think the problem is that on Friday while I was prepping the boat for diving, I went around and tightened the bolts.  It must have broken the seals.   Anyway.  I could have possibly winged it by running with a reduced main ballast, but asI was heading into the open sea, I thought I best be sensible and call it off. SoIt was in for about 10 minutes.  Pulled it out and was home by 8:30, verydisappointed. Spent the afternoon sticking them in with Sikaflex and moaning. Hope these pics make it through.  You can just see the air spilling from the widows in the second picture and the boat is going down nose first. Kind RegardsJames 
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