<div dir="ltr">Hi Brian,<div><br></div><div>There's nothing wrong with a K350, but a wreck in a current is something I would avoid in any sub. Just way too many chances to get pinned against or under something that the thrusters might not be able to pull you off. Just my 2 cents...</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br><br>Alec</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Brian Hughes 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">Crowd Sourcing - should I do it? Would you? In a K350 - Lake Diver aka<br>
Harold?<br>
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A couple of weeks ago I was approached with the idea of carrying a 90<br>
year-old WWII Vet to a wreck off the coast of New Jersey. He would like to<br>
see the USS Algol one last time. An attack cargo ship, he served on her<br>
during the war in the Pacific. She was sunk as an artificial reef a number<br>
of years ago.<br>
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New Jersey wreck diving is not for sissies. When I've been wreck diving in<br>
the Atlantic, as I'm sure many of you have, you have an anchor line to get<br>
on the wreck and can get back to the boat via same. A submersible in the<br>
North Atlantic with a current ... and usually bad visibility ... mobile in<br>
three directions with no attachments ... Diving, if the viz stinks you can<br>
use a reel to get back and you avoid any underwater hazards easily enough.<br>
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The wreck is shallow, 70 feet to the super structure, 120 to the sand.<br>
Would be trivial to have support divers outside for most of the dive. But<br>
Jersey wreck diving in a K350. Mark Ragan and I mused about it. He's not<br>
interested. Which leaves me. I'm at about a 20% level of interest.<br>
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At a minimum I think we'd need a boat with a crane. I can't imagine being<br>
towed out with a 90 year-old gent in the back and I can't imagine getting<br>
him into it while bobbing about anchored onto the wreck. Lifted and dropped<br>
in would be my preference.<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Brian<br>
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