<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>A point of interest I found in the G.L. regulations is that they don't require a flood valve.</div><div>So no way of escaping at depth. You would just have to rely on help coming before your</div><div>4 days of life support ran out. If you followed the rules & had communication to a support boat</div><div>& an emergency beacon I guess this would be feasable, but I will be putting in a flood valve.</div><div>The other thought is that th<span style="font-size: 10pt;">ey won't be getting any insurance claims for flooded submarines</span><img src="https://s.yimg.com/ok/u/assets/img/emoticons/emo1.gif" alt="*:) happy" title="*:) happy" style="font-size: 10pt;"></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida
Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">Alan</div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 7, 2014 12:01 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] submarine escape procedures<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv8329672010"><div><div
style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div>If one were ascending from an extreme depth would it make sense to have a bottle of mixed gas ( low nitrogen or no nitrogen) for the way up?</div><div> </div><div>Brian <br clear="none"><br clear="none">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">From: Gregory Cotton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] submarine escape procedures<br clear="none">Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 16:52:19 -0500<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><div>I was there in Aug-Oct 1966. The safety divers were there for that, and you were asking for a punch in the gut if you weren't exhaling all the way up!<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>I understand that they finally built a 35 ft deep
replacement pool! That training tank was the main landmark on the base, they had one at Pearl Harbor too but I never saw that one. I qualified on the USS Torsk SS-423 and spent my whole time in Norfolk or Charleston.<br clear="none">
</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv8329672010yqt7252085656" id="yiv8329672010yqt13832"><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div>On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:52 AM, via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
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I went through Sub School In Feb. 67. My recollection on the instructors in the water was to ensure you exhaled all the way an to the surface and ride you the last 10' to slow you up.<br clear="none">
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I qualified on USS Barb SSN-596.<br clear="none">
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