[PSUBS-MAILIST] UC3 Nautilus

[Jon Wallace via Personal_Submersibles]

I'm not sure I see any rationalization to sinking the sub to hide evidence of a crime in such shallow water that it can be easily reached and recovered.  So I'm suspect of the authorities theorizing that he scuttled the vessel intentionally for nefarious reasons.  However, Peter did some unconventional things, shall we say, with that sub.  I recall seeing a video of him swapping out a viewport while it was under water.  I also recall that shortly after first launch when he tried to submerge next to a pier, the aft flooded but the bow did not which caused the vessel to pitch at about a 75 degree angle with the aft end on the bottom.  The conning tower was underwater and the only reason they were able to recover without flooding the sub at that time was because there was a hatch in the fore end that just barely sat above water level.  It's not clear to me if Nautilus was a vessel that could be adequately operated effectively by just one person.  There was a history of happenstance and perhaps it caught up with him again.
Of course none of that explains the missing reporter.
Jon
 

    On Sunday, August 13, 2017 12:18 PM, "MerlinSub at t-online.de via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
 

 Hi Jon, is still a little to early - but this statement below concerns me a lot and looks not so good: 
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Kristian Isbak, who had responded to the navy’s call to help locate the ship, sailed out immediately Friday and saw Madsen standing wearing his trademark military fatigues in the submarine’s tower while it was still afloat.

“He then climbed down inside the submarine and there was then some kind of air flow coming up and the submarine started to sink,” Isbak said. “[He] came up again and stayed in the tower until water came into it”, before swimming to a nearby boat as the submarine sank, he added.
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If this was just a stunt it will cost hunderthousands for the raising of the wreck, the investigation , the search mission with ships and helicopters etc.etc.  I think we can rule this out. 

I think in the next days we will learn if the ballasttanks valves were open or close and working or not. 

vbr Carsten




   
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