<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div aria-label="Compose body">It's my understanding that compressed oxygen and oil can be very explosive. If you didn't have any O2 tanks in your sub, I believe you would be ok but someone else here might have more insight than I. I knew a guy that was on O2 and got some oil on his fingers... it put him in the ICU for several weeks.</div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;" data-mce-style="color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br><b>To: </b>"Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, February 20, 2017 8:13:02 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>[PSUBS-MAILIST] inside battery<br><div><br></div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px" data-mce-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_ym19_1_1487606663234_2865">Hi all, I may have made a bad judgment call, I added batteries to Gamma and was intending to put them in the escape pod. I decided to just put them in the back of the hull instead. I borrowed the batteries from Elementary 3000, they are lead acid in a fibreglass box, flooded with oil with a bladder top. To my mind they are safe because they are flooded with oil. At the same time, are they dangerous because they are flooded with oil. I can's see why they are dangerous, but at the same time, I know people talk about the danger of oil in a sub. I am not sure why? I don't want to invest in AGM batteries yet because I am not totally confident I will be happy with the range. I think I might need a diesel engine. I have worked out the diesel engine idea but it is a 10K investment. That is why I want to give batteries a try first. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487606663234_2865">What to do?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1487606663234_2865">Hank</div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br>Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org<br>http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>