<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></div><div>Alec</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:12 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Alec,<br>
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>
<br>
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>
Hank --------------------------------------------<br>
<span class="">On Sun, 5/24/15, Private via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project<br>
To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>
</span> Received: Sunday, May 24, 2015, 10:38 PM<br>
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Indeed! Except mine went<br>
vertical only for emergency exit rather than as standard<br>
procedure. It was not going to have any freeboard to speak<br>
of in vertical mode, so you would climb out in a hurry and<br>
watch her sink from under you. The method of going vertical<br>
was dropping the emergency weight, which was located at the<br>
very front. More than the front actually, it stuck out and<br>
constituted your crash bar. The sub was a "flyer",<br>
a poor man's Deep Flight. I had her 90% complete when I<br>
bought Snoopy, and the flyer project sat untouched for many<br>
years while Snoopy took up all my time and served as a<br>
classroom. The sub I'm finally finishing up now recycles<br>
the flyer hull, but redone to be conventional. Well,<br>
conventional in the sense of having ballast tanks and a<br>
conning tower - she's actually a pretty bizarre beast as<br>
the folks who come to the convention will see! My conclusion<br>
was that a flyer must be great fun but requires both<br>
</span> unusually clear water and a vessel capable of laun!<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> ching the sub at the dive site. If I owned a<br>
mega yacht and cruised the Galapagos, a flyer would be just<br>
the thing. But what I'm aiming for now is radical<br>
simplicity, whereas the old one was all touch screens,<br>
servos, PLCs, and such.<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
<br>
Alec<br>
<br>
<br>
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> On May 24, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Jon Wallace<br>
via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
><br>
><br>
> Talk to Alec, he was building such a<br>
design years ago before he acquired SNOOPY and ultimately<br>
decided against it...but I don't recall why.<br>
><br>
><br>
>> On 5/24/2015 6:31 PM, hank pronk via<br>
Personal_Submersibles wrote:<br>
>> Yes,<br>
you float it to the dock side, then tip it vertical to get<br>
in, close the hatch, tip it horizontal, and your away. <br>
Saves building a CT that my 200lb sexy frame can fit into<br>
:-)<br>
>><br>
Hank--------------------------------------------<br>
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