[PSUBS-MAILIST] Pilot Fish unmanned -255m dive report

[Antoine Delafargue via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Alec
please wait a few minutes,
email sent by mistake...

writing a full report now

On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Private via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Congrats, big milestone! How did you do the test? Did you just put a dive
> computer on the outside to verify depth? That's a really deep test.
>
> Best,
>
> Alec
>
> > On Jul 2, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Antoine Delafargue via Personal_Submersibles
> <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Psubbers,
> >
> > Yesterday the Pilot Fish hull went down to -255m off the coast
> >
> > For a long time I have wondered how to pressure test the Pilot Fish
> hull. There was the Aberdeen Hypobaric center option, but way up in
> Scotland, and also a test chamber in Cherbourg, France operated by DCNS,
> closer but much more expensive and requiring loading the hull vertically
> with a special support.
> > Other option: deep lake. Unfortunately there are not that many options
> in France with easy access. At last, a deep spot in the sea. Ever wasted
> time on the internet looking for things like where is the deepest point on
> the planet or where is the farthest point from land in the ocean? I did
> some of that
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