[PSUBS-MAILIST] Flathead Lake trip

Mon Aug 12 01:55:35 EDT 2019

Cliff in action at open house.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 11:53 PM David Colombo <seaquestor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Alan, Here are my favorite shots of Cliff in action.
>
> On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 9:30 PM Alan via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>> We should resurrect the Psubs awards for that effort Cliff.
>> Not sure what category you just won!
>> Alan
>>
>> On 12/08/2019, at 2:41 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>
>> That is because I am still traveling the 2050 miles from Montana to
>> Texas.  I am still about 600 miles from home but we are in Texas.  I will
>> begin uploading pictures, video, cockpit voice recordings and boat dive
>> data to David Colombo tomorrow late when I get back.
>>
>> Last time I spoke David, he had over 1/3 of a terabyte off data and that
>> was without most of the teams individual files.
>>
>> It is going to take David and Alec some time to digest the files.
>>
>> More latter but for me, this was my best set of dives to date for the
>> R300.  Visibility was great and we made a lot of great dive sites in the
>> lake.
>>
>> Thursday night at about 10-11 pm Gamma and the R300 each made our first
>> night dives.  We descended together to 200 ft.  Tenders said that it looked
>> like a UFO slowly descending into the black.  It was a hoot.
>>
>> More later including a “das boat” video clip of my boat at Yellow Bay and
>> one of my all time favorites, the “Great White” clip in which Alan Parks
>> videoed the R300 as she passed 3-4’ directly below the keel of Jessie B and
>> emerged out the starboard side.
>>
>> From 1-5pm on Friday we had at least 300 visitors to the boathouse ,
>> mostly very excited kids.  Was a joy!
>>
>> Great week, great support from FLBS and a great team.
>>
>> More later
>>
>> Best Cliff
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Aug 11, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>
>> Haven't seen any pics of Cliff's sub !
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
>>
>> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> To: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flathead Lake trip
>> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 03:11:47 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> Brian,
>> Yes it was a great trip.  It was well planned out and the FLBS facility
>> was incredible, plus the the boats and crew were great!
>> It turns out the sampler connector can be installed from two directions.
>> I had it installed in reverse and the relay that switches polarity burnt
>> out from leaving it on too long by accident.  Luckily the connection was in
>> backwards allowing me to reverse it by switching to the working side of the
>> relay.  Otherwise I would have had to hard wire to the breaker to make it
>> work, and we would have done that.
>>
>> I forgot we did have an incident, just prior to diving with a student an
>> o-ring failed on my 80 cu ft HP tank.  Air suddenly burst from the yoke
>> connection.  Dave jumped right on it and turned off the air valve.  We only
>> lost 800 psi and were able to replace  the o-ring from Tim's spares and we
>> could make the dive.
>> Hank
>>
>> On Saturday, August 10, 2019, 8:40:08 PM MDT, Brian Cox via
>> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Sound like it was and incredibly great trip !   Sorry I missed that one
>> !   Why did you have to reverse the polarity on the relay?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>>
>>
>> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
>>
>> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <
>> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flathead Lake trip
>> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:33:07 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> Hi All,
>> Unlike Cliff and David, I had a short trip home from FLBS today, so I can
>> make the first report on the trip.  All went smooth for Gamma except for a
>> failed CO2 meter,   I was going to cancel one day of diving to drive home
>> and get the spare, but David and I decided that it was safe to dive with
>> just an O2 meter and the altimeter.  I have not practiced with that because
>> I had a reliable CO2 meter for years.  Turns out it is very easy and
>> reliable.  The altimeter correlated perfectly with the O2 meter - just
>> allow for temp drops at the bottom.  David and I had an exceptional dive on
>> a vertical wall about 225 feet deep-in fact the wall had an outcrop above
>> the sub.  We managed to take many samples with the sampler for the science
>> guys.  David and I had to rewire the polarity of the sampler while clinging
>> to the side of the rock wall.  I parked by clinging to the rock wall with
>> forward thrust to keep us in place at the proper depth for sampling while
>> David located bits of sediment among the rocks.  At the same time we had to
>> revers the wires on the relay in the electric panel.   It was a total gas!
>> We though we might have to drill and blast to get samples and had lots of
>> fun joking in the sub about that.  This was my all time best dive in Gamma
>> and Dave was a riot to have with me.  Dave , Tim and I are ready to compete
>> in the sub launch and retevial  races -we are a well oiled machine, the
>> three of us.  Warning to Cliff, we will be recruiting  Sean to team Canada
>> in the future.  One of my female passenger stated that the sub ride was in
>> the top ten best things she ever did.  Then 10 minutes into the dive she
>> corrected that and said it was in the top five things she ever did.
>> Finally after cruising the bottom for a while she proclaimed it was the
>> number 1 best thing she ever did.  That was the highlight of the trip for
>> me.
>> Hank
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