<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443325147429_2852"><span>Tim,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443325147429_2852" dir="ltr"><span>I was thinking the same thing, the cowl would be like a cone that you see on dogs around their neck :-) it would fit against both hulls, trapped in place so to speak. There is no </span>jettisoning of the pod by the pilot. When the internal pressure of the sub reaches ambient, the pod simply floats away. I could spring load the pod to give it a bit of a kick away from the sub. It is pretty much a one man pod, so no passengers past 100 feet. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443325147429_2852" dir="ltr">I was thinking about putting three 12v gam batteries in the pod as range extenders. I need 319 pounds to balance the pod to neutral. I will build a pool in the shop to get it balanced just right with me in it.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1443325147429_2852" dir="ltr">Hank</div> <br><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Saturday, September 26, 2015 7:30 PM, T Novak via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6695284797"><style>#yiv6695284797 #yiv6695284797 --
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#yiv6695284797 </style><div><div class="yiv6695284797WordSection1"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Looks good, Hank.</span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Alan's thought about the using the pod as further crew accommodation sounds good. But it looks like only one or maybe two crew members will fit in it during escape.</span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">I trust that the pod is of sufficient releasable ballast weight to account for its buoyancy that far aft. Is such ballast even necessary? </span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Perhaps you could mould the fairing around and attached to the pod, but also fitting snug against the main hull. Upon release the pod along with the fairing detaches from the hull, and the fairing is then jettisoned from the pod by the pilot using the same method that the pod was jettisoned from the main hull.</span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Thoughts?</span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Tim</span></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></div><div class="yiv6695284797yqt3638341961" id="yiv6695284797yqt37235"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;"> Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> September-26-15 2:20 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Fw:</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal"> </div><div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443301273277_3385"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">Hi Alan,</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443301273277_3385"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">The hatch has a 6 inch viewport so I can see the surface and the sub as I am leaving for the surface.</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443301273277_3385"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">Hank</span></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div><div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div><div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">On Saturday, September 26, 2015 3:06 PM, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"></span></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div><div><div id="yiv6695284797"><div><div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9302"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">Hi Hank,</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9301"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">looking really good.</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9300"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">A thought I had was that you could put a downward facing viewport in your</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9299"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">escape pod so you could take an extra person. Make up a stretcher across the </span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9298"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">pod entrance so they can lie across it & look down. Or put a small person in it</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9240"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">with a side view port. </span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9297"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">If you had an appropriately placed view port you could see out when you escape</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9241"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">& hit the surface. Also you could signal out it with a torch.</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9242"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">Alan</span></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9037"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9036"><div id="yiv6695284797yqt76987"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9258"><div align="center" class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"></span><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br clear="none"><b>To:</b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> <br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 27, 2015 6:50 AM<br clear="none"><b>Subject:</b> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Fw:</span><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"></span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9035"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv6695284797"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9034"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9033"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4744"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">Here is Gamma with the pod in place, the big ring is fitted and ready to weld in. The ballast tanks can be lengthened giving me more free board for shallower launches. I can lengthen them and put the vertical thrusters between them still. The Perry thrusters will be mounted under the front ballast tanks on jettisoning mounts. I need to figure out how to make a cowl to go from the hull to the pod that will to interfere with the pod releasing from the sub.</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4744"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">Hank</span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4723"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4718"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4717"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4716"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443289492856_4721"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">On Saturday, September 26, 2015 11:44 AM, xxx xxxxx <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mp13@live.ca" target="_blank" href="mailto:mp13@live.ca">mp13@live.ca</a>> wrote:</span><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"></span></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9039"><div id="yiv6695284797"><div id="yiv6695284797yui_3_16_0_1_1443298874963_9038"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"><img id="yiv6695284797FDD8C5A-4DBD-47C3-99D6-03FB28DB5DCC" border="0" width="256" height="192" src="cid:eZg1JubIyYzBdsl0h2vB"></span></div></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div><div id="yiv6695284797yqt14324"><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a></span></div></div><div class="yiv6695284797MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="font-family:helveticaneue;color:black;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt3638341961" id="yqt24744">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>