[PSUBS-MAILIST] Brian Cox submarine still available

[J. Foulkes via Personal_Submersibles]

Jim,

I am usually just an interested fly on the wall for your discussions and
would be interested in purchasing the sub whole, but I would have to haul
it 2200 miles to my farm which would unfortunately make the price too high
for me.  I hope you find someone who is interested.  Have you considered
reaching out to the IEEE OES:  Contact Us - The IEEE Oceanic Engineering
Society (ieeeoes.org) <https://ieeeoes.org/contact-us/>?  Someone like
Merrick Haller may know of academic groups that may be interested in the
sub.

V/R,
James

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:02 AM james hughes via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Hi Gang,
> I've been meaning to put this up on the General Discussion email list for
> sometime now but have had a lot of issues that I needed to deal with
> recently (some are still ongoing).
> Brian's Cox's sub is still for sale.  For those of you who don't know much
> about this sub here a few details.  Brian Cox passed away last July before
> doing under water sea trials with this boat.  It went into the water a
> number of times but he still needed to make adjustments to the trim before
> he could dive it.  It was recently determined that the 5 feet diameter
> sphere was out of round (something Brian never knew about).  I don't know
> the thickness of the sphere but the fact it's out of round about 0.75
> inches means that may not be safe to dive to much depth.  It could be
> turned into an ambient sub with little trouble or, I guessing, that the
> inside could be reinforced.  That being said, it might just be better to
> buy the thing for the parts.  Teri (Brian's widow) is looking to get $2,000
> for it.  That's a bargain considering what you would get!!
>
> First of all, there's the 3 axil  trailer (with 6 good tires) which is
> probably worth $2,000 by itself.
> Ten SCUBA tanks that are plumbed to a high pressure manifold and high
> pressure valves.
> About 600 pounds of lead ingots (retail, lead goes for $3.33 a pound
> around where I live in Orange County, CA)
> A CO2 scrubber with absorbent inside
> A CO2 meter
> An O2 tank with a regulator
> A bailout bottle with a regulator / pressure gauge
> 9 AGM batteries (they are Fullriver DC115-12 and sell for about $400
> each).  *IF* it turned out that the batteries were no longer able to hold
> a charge Teri said she would be willing to refund $1,000 to the buyer.
> There are 2 oil compensated motors (I believe they are 3 horsepower each)
> Fire extinguisher
> Life jacket
> All of the portholes are made with the plexiglass that Brian annealed
> himself according to Stachiw's Acrylic Handbook.  The thing has something
> like 12 portholes.  It should be noted that if you were to cut off the
> conning tower to use it on another boat, this alone would probably save you
> well over 100 hours of shop work when you consider the milling that went
> into making the hatch and the lathe work that went into all the portholes
> (to say nothing of all the welding the conning tower involved).  How much
> is your time worth?
> There's also a marine radio
> Emergency signaling light
> Electronics associated with running the motors (motor controllers, fuses,
> etc.).  This alone was probably not cheap.
> Cabin pressure gauge that's made for a small submarine!
> Large depth gauge
> It's actually registered as a boat in California!
>
> All total, it's probably got over $10,000 worth of parts.    Here's a link
> to 7 Youtube videos you might want to see (showing the evolution of the sub
> and it's sea trials) if you've not seen them yet:
> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz_JObSMe33gn6l_szab4AA  When watching
> the videos you might notice that the boat got about 6 feet shorter in the
> end as Brian cut off 6 feet of the front to help with the trim.  Attached
> are also a few pictures.
>
> *If you are interested, please let me know ASAP  as the price of storing
> this thing has just gone up (like everything else!).*.
> Please let me know if you have any questions.
>
> God bless, Jim
> (858) 361-1863
>
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