[PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project

Fri May 29 00:20:25 EDT 2015

How goes Seaquestor, David?  Last we heard you were making excellent progress.

Tim

From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of Seaquestor via Personal_Submersibles
Sent: May-25-15 8:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project

Hank, Sounds like you need one of Phil's jet pack Newt Suits, that can fly back to port while you take a nap.

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From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > 
Date: 05/24/2015 8:12 PM (GMT-08:00) 
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project 

Alec,
I am not thinking flyer at all.  The water clarity would not support the speed.  I am thinking of a simple tiny light sub that can launch anywhere even off the deck of my boat.  It is just a though right now.

For now I am enjoying my what seems gigantic bow dome.  The visibility is unbelievable, the modification cost and effort has been well worth it.  As a bonus, my payload is back to 500 lbs plus.  I had to fill the sub with steel plates to get it to sink.  :-)
Hank  --------------------------------------------
On Sun, 5/24/15, Private via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> > wrote:

Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project
To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> >
Received: Sunday, May 24, 2015, 10:38 PM

Indeed! Except mine went
vertical only for emergency exit rather than as standard
procedure.  It was not going to have any freeboard to speak
of in vertical mode, so you would climb out in a hurry and
watch her sink from under you. The method of going vertical
was dropping the emergency weight, which was located at the
very front. More than the front actually, it stuck out and
constituted your crash bar. The sub was a "flyer",
a poor man's Deep Flight. I had her 90% complete when I
bought Snoopy, and the flyer project sat untouched for many
years while Snoopy took up all my time and served as a
classroom. The sub I'm finally finishing up now recycles
the flyer hull, but redone to be conventional. Well,
conventional in the sense of having ballast tanks and a
conning tower - she's actually a pretty bizarre beast as
the folks who come to the convention will see! My conclusion
was that a flyer must be great fun but requires both
unusually clear water and a vessel capable of laun!
  ching the sub at the dive site. If I owned a
mega yacht and cruised the Galapagos, a flyer would be just
the thing. But what I'm aiming for now is radical
simplicity, whereas the old one was all touch screens,
servos, PLCs, and such.

Best,

Alec

> On May 24, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Jon Wallace
via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org <mailto:personal_submersibles at psubs.org> >
wrote:
> 
> 
> Talk to Alec, he was building such a
design years ago before he acquired SNOOPY and ultimately
decided against it...but I don't recall why.
> 
> 
>> On 5/24/2015 6:31 PM, hank pronk via
Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>> Yes,
you float it to the dock side, then tip it vertical to get
in, close the hatch, tip it horizontal, and your away. 
Saves building a CT that my 200lb sexy frame can fit into
:-)
>>
Hank--------------------------------------------
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