<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2">Alan,   Ha Ha, no that's the back. The plan forward is to remove a bunch of lead.  And maybe more buoyancy in the nose.  </FONT><DIV><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2">Brian</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"> </FONT><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">From: Alan 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] submerge !</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 10:47:42 +1200</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;"></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Brian,</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">I get confused about what you call front & back. I think you were</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Transiting on the surface in one direction & diving in another.</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Is the occupancy sphere being called the front?</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Alan</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;"><BR></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;"><BR>On 10/05/2019, at 9:43 AM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="font-size: 10pt;"><DIV><DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2">Hi Alan, </FONT><DIV><FONT size="2">                   That video with me rocking back and forth was with absolutely no lead ballast in the bottom, so it was very unstable at that point. </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"> It's basically too heavy, so I can reduce the lead ballast somewhat, but if I take too much out it will be more unstable during the transition stage.  It was hard to get a good reading on what was happening because I couldn't tell if the front straps were supporting the front of the sub.  I think they were though, I did a test where I tried to bring the nose up by it self and I couldn't do it , so that tells me that the nose is still a bit heavy.    I think I want to get one of those fiberglass hp tanks that Hank was talking about.  </FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2">Brian <BR></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">--- <A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A> wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">From: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] submerge !</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;">Date: Fri, 10 May 2019 09:29:53 +1200</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;"></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Brian,</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Congratulations! </DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">The sub is looking good with all your recent modifications.</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Did you test the stability at all? I know in a previous video you were in the</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Conning tower rocking her about. Would have liked to have seen a diver</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">on the outside trying to pull her over as you went down. </DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Looked like you could trim her well, were you happy with that?</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;">Alan</DIV><DIV style="font-size: 10pt;"><BR>On 10/05/2019, at 9:16 AM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="font-size: 10pt;"><DIV><DIV style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><DIV></DIV>
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