<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2">Would be good to have a small pony bottle so you could make a decompression saftey stop a 15 feet.</FONT><DIV><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2">Brian</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">From: Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] onboard gear</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2019 15:36:05 -0400</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV dir="ltr" style="font-size: 10pt;">Greg Cottrell once pointed out something that had been non-obvious to me in connection with bailouts from shallow-diving subs like ours - just how big the seacock needs to be to flood the sub quickly enough. Imagine you had a little ball valve of about the diameter of a garden hose. Now lets say you are hung up at 140 feet and need to bail. The ambient pressure is 60 psi, which happens to be the normal pressure for household plumbing. Therefore, your sub would take as long to fill up as it would if you opened the hatch while it was parked on your driveway and stuck the garden hose in. I'm not sure how long that is, and it will depend on the volume of your cabin, but surely it's way past the 10 minute no-decompression time for 140 feet. The bottom line is PSUB seacocks need to be very generously sized because we dive shallow. Shackleton's is 3". <DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Alec </DIV></DIV><BR><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;"><DIV dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 2:39 PM Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV>Shanee</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV>Depending on the depth that you have to flood the sub and make a free accent to the surface, it really depends on how fast you need to equalize to try and get to the surface before exceeding the nitrogen uptake limits for getting bent on course. Only the air cavity's are affected in a rapid pressurization I believe but my sub has a rated working depth of 350' and as I remember from the old navy tables, you only have about 5 minutes at 165' before you have to make a stop at 10' so due to that fact, I would have to flood the sub as fast as I can to minimize the nitrogen uptake to make it to the surface before getting bent and the negatives to that are that most people can't clear their ears that fast so you are looking at possibly blowing your ear drums which in turn is really painful and screws up you equilibrium which is going to hamper your safe accent to the surface in a timely manner. I am going to have mixed gas in my bailouts to buy me time for getting to the surface and keeping the nitrogen uptake as minimal as possible.<DIV>Rick</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV dir="ltr">On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 7:15 AM Shanee Stopnitzky via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Doesn't feel like it compared to Hank! Also, forgetting food, water, blankets and a first aid kit. Forgetting those has been my specialty for my whole life!</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Steinke hoods are probably a good idea, although I'm terrified of them myself. Does anyone have any information on what pressure change effects happen physiologically during an emergency escape? I'm a diver so I'm very familiar with what happens when you descend and ascend on scuba, but I'm not sure what happens with a sudden and extreme pressure increase. Other than all your organs getting squished, of course. </DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thanks for your input everybody!</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 6:58 PM Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><DIV dir="ltr">Hi Shanee,<DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>That's a pretty comprehensive list you have, and I couldn't fit all that. But how about a pair of Steinke hoods? Oh, and one very simple thing... a flashlight.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Best,</DIV><DIV>Alec</DIV></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 4:35 PM Shanee Stopnitzky via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Hi all,</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">I'm wondering what everyone's onboard safety/repair kits contain, or what 'loose' gear you carry on dives with you. Ours are (so far): </DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><I><B>CG requirements</B></I></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">air horn</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">whistle</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">life jackets</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">fire extinguisher</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><I><B>safety</B></I></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">fire blanket</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">2x scuba masks</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">2x spare air</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">primary gas analyzer</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">backup gas analyzer</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">spare CO2 scrubber - battery powered</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">handheld radios</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">uw radio system</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><B><I>repair kit</I></B></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">gorilla tape</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">electrical tape</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">butyl tape</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">zip tie assortment</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">spare battery terminals</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">spare wire connectors</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">spare wire</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">splash zone</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">JB weld</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">steel tie wire</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">steel strap</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">e6000 glue </DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">hose clamp assortment</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">screwdriver set</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">adjustable wrench</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">multi-tool</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">hammer</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">scissors</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">What's in your kits?</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Best,</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Shanee</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV>-- <BR><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif">Institute for Emergence//Community Submersibles Project</DIV><DIV style="font-family:georgia,serif"><BR></DIV><DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV><DIV><SPAN style="font-family:georgia,serif">:::::</SPAN><BR></DIV><DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><DIV><FONT face="georgia, serif">'The fact remains that political frontiers are impervious to our verbal cultures, while the substantially nonverbal civilization of playfulness crosses them with the happy freedom of the wind and the clouds.' ~ Primo Levi </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="georgia, serif"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="georgia, serif">:::::</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="georgia, serif"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:georgia,serif;white-space:pre-wrap">'Caught up in a mass of abstractions, our attention hypnotized by a host of human-made technologies that only reflect us back to ourselves, it is all too easy for us to forget our carnal inherence in a more-than-human matrix of sensations and sensibilities. 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