<html><head></head><body><p dir="ltr">I did some work on a 1 ATM suit, but it was more like the WASP suit, with no legs. After several iterations, I decided that it wasn't quite dexterous enough to replace a wet diver, while at the same time being too limited in its advantages over a larger and more capable vehicle. By the time I actually build something, I expect to be quite a bit older... I want my sub to have comfortable bucket seats and coffee cup holders.</p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 25, 2015 2:09:12 PM MDT, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yiv1253823253"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432584522213_2358"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432584522213_2357" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><span></span></div><div></div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4196" dir="ltr">Hank, I share your interest in driving psubs designs smaller to make them easier to deploy, transport and fabricate. Sg. Pepper is sill one of my favorite psubs. I went through many design calcs on a design much like your describe with the ability of a small 1-atm central pressure hull to pivot relative to MBTs pods that remain horizontal while trying to meet constraints of ABS. What I found is that ABS is not kind to small psubs like
this. I found that it was almost impossible to meet the minimum GB-CG constraint without using mercury to radially shift CG on the fly which is against ABS rules. The other issue I found problematic is trying to meet the ABS minimum free board rule and the loss of surface stability on these designs if you retain the ability to rotate. For these micro psubs, excessively tall humans like Sean (ha ha) kill surface stability when you get in and out in an emergency situation on the surface. I think it is possibly doable if you ignore ABS freeboard and mercury rules. In the spirit of KISS, much beloved in Alec's new boat, I finally gave up on trying to pivot the pressure hull and have been working on a small psub in which the pilot remains vertical and tilted forward but without the ability for the pilot to rotate the boat. Batteries pods hung low at the pilots feet generate very nice
CG-CB spread to enhance stability but make it harder to launch with conventional trailer arrangement. Also without the ability to pivot, much like a scuba diver does is going from a surface orientation to a submerged orientation, visibility becomes an issue unless you live in Roatan.</div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4220" dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4235" dir="ltr">To me, there is lot of romance to designing and building a 1-atm self contained DIY psub much like the old JIM atmospheric body suits <a id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4339" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIM_suit" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIM_suit</a> but it is not going to be easy. Sean, at one time, I think I remember you being interested in designing a one atm. body suit. Did you ever make any progress on this?</div><div
id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4412" dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4420" dir="ltr">Hank, at the speed you fabricate stuff, I suspect you will have all this sorted out and a boat in the water by time I finish this email. Let us know how you come along with the concept.</div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4422" dir="ltr"><br clear="none" /></div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4421" dir="ltr">Cliff<br clear="none" /></div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3689"><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3688"><br clear="none" /></div></div><br clear="none" /> <div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3748" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3747" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida
Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br /><br /></div><div class="yiv1253823253yqt6272497580" id="yiv1253823253yqt27983"><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3746" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1" id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3903" /> <font id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4044" face="Arial" size="2"> <b id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4467"><span id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4466" style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none" /> <b id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4465"><span id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4464" style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> personal_submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> <br clear="none" /> <b id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4463"><span id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4462" style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Monday, May 25, 2015 3:10 PM<br clear="none" /> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project<br clear="none" /> </font> </div> <div class="yiv1253823253y_msg_container" id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3919"><br clear="none" /><div id="yiv1253823253"><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_3918"><table id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4043" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4042"><tr id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4041"><td id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4040" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4039">Alec,<br clear="none" />Any ideas or criticisms are welcome.<br clear="none" />Hank</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="yiv1253823253qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432584522213_2361"><br clear="none" /><br clear="none" /></div><div
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<table id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4027" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4026"><tr id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4025"><td id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4024" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4023" 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 id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4038"><br clear="none" /></div><div id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4037">Alec</div></div><div class="yiv1253823253yqt5764250836" id="yiv1253823253yqt72829"><div class="yiv1253823253gmail_extra" id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4031"><br clear="none" /><div class="yiv1253823253gmail_quote" id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4030">On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:12 PM, hank pronk via
Personal_Submersibles <span id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4033" dir="ltr"><<a id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4032" href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none" /><blockquote class="yiv1253823253gmail_quote" id="yiv1253823253yui_3_16_0_1_1432578640715_4029" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><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="yiv1253823253">On Sun, 5/24/15, Private via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">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 href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">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="yiv1253823253HOEnZb"><div class="yiv1253823253h5"> 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" />
via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br clear="none" />
wrote:<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" />
:-)<br clear="none" />
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