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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project <br>
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<td valign="top"><div dir="ltr">Sounds good, tiny and light is a major plus - particularly as you have a boat that can get you to a dive site and over the side. <div><br clear="none"></div><div>Alec</div></div><div class="yqt5764250836" id="yqt72829"><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:12 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><br clear="none">
Alec,<br clear="none">
I am not thinking flyer at all. The water clarity would not support the speed. I am thinking of a simple tiny light sub that can launch anywhere even off the deck of my boat. It is just a though right now.<br clear="none">
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For now I am enjoying my what seems gigantic bow dome. The visibility is unbelievable, the modification cost and effort has been well worth it. As a bonus, my payload is back to 500 lbs plus. I had to fill the sub with steel plates to get it to sink. :-)<br clear="none">
Hank --------------------------------------------<br clear="none">
<span class="">On Sun, 5/24/15, Private via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project<br clear="none">
To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br clear="none">
</span> Received: Sunday, May 24, 2015, 10:38 PM<br clear="none">
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Indeed! Except mine went<br clear="none">
vertical only for emergency exit rather than as standard<br clear="none">
procedure. It was not going to have any freeboard to speak<br clear="none">
of in vertical mode, so you would climb out in a hurry and<br clear="none">
watch her sink from under you. The method of going vertical<br clear="none">
was dropping the emergency weight, which was located at the<br clear="none">
very front. More than the front actually, it stuck out and<br clear="none">
constituted your crash bar. The sub was a "flyer",<br clear="none">
a poor man's Deep Flight. I had her 90% complete when I<br clear="none">
bought Snoopy, and the flyer project sat untouched for many<br clear="none">
years while Snoopy took up all my time and served as a<br clear="none">
classroom. The sub I'm finally finishing up now recycles<br clear="none">
the flyer hull, but redone to be conventional. Well,<br clear="none">
conventional in the sense of having ballast tanks and a<br clear="none">
conning tower - she's actually a pretty bizarre beast as<br clear="none">
the folks who come to the convention will see! My conclusion<br clear="none">
was that a flyer must be great fun but requires both<br clear="none">
</span> unusually clear water and a vessel capable of laun!<br clear="none">
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> ching the sub at the dive site. If I owned a<br clear="none">
mega yacht and cruised the Galapagos, a flyer would be just<br clear="none">
the thing. But what I'm aiming for now is radical<br clear="none">
simplicity, whereas the old one was all touch screens,<br clear="none">
servos, PLCs, and such.<br clear="none">
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Best,<br clear="none">
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Alec<br clear="none">
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> On May 24, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Jon Wallace<br clear="none">
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> Talk to Alec, he was building such a<br clear="none">
design years ago before he acquired SNOOPY and ultimately<br clear="none">
decided against it...but I don't recall why.<br clear="none">
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>> On 5/24/2015 6:31 PM, hank pronk via<br clear="none">
Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br clear="none">
>> Yes,<br clear="none">
you float it to the dock side, then tip it vertical to get<br clear="none">
in, close the hatch, tip it horizontal, and your away. <br clear="none">
Saves building a CT that my 200lb sexy frame can fit into<br clear="none">
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