[PSUBS-MAILIST] onboard gear

[David Colombo via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Cliff, do you use the mouth inflate tube or do you have a hp air hose to
fill the hood prior to escape?
Best Regards,
David Colombo

804 College Ave
Santa Rosa, CA. 95404
(707) 536-1424
www.SeaQuestor.com



On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 4:24 PM Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Hood has a mouth piece and valve connected to the mouthpiece.  Prior to
> ascent, with the hood on you put mouthpiece in your mouth and breath cabin
> air through the hood  with the open valve.  Just prior to escape, you
> inflate the buoyancy bladder on the hood, remove the mouthpiece and close
> the hood valve.  From this point until you surface, you breath air in the
> hood. Excess air on ascent is vented out hood. At surface if you want to
> keep the hood on, you put the mouth piece back in and open the hood valve
> and breath surface air.  If sea state is low, you unzip the hood and breath
> normally.
>
> This topic is covered pretty well in training video.
>
> Cliff
>
> On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, 5:31:31 PM CDT, Jon Wallace via
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>
> One question...what's the proper way to breath in that thing?
>
>
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> *From:* Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, April 30, 2019 5:10 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] onboard gear
>
> If you have not had a chance to see this old US Navy training film on
> submarine escape, you might want enjoy this.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffOJEJwWSbs
>
> The training is on using the Steinke Hood.  I use this appliance on my
> boat.  Even though it is getting harder to find this hoods, they surface on
> Ebay periodically.
>
> Cliff
>
>
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