<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">River,</FONT><DIV style=""><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"> Underneath that shell I have a buoyancy tank with about 120lbs of syntactic foam and some additional soft ballast.. There is quite a bit of lead weight down low in the back part of the MBT, about 1400 lbs. The main ballast tank holds approx 100 cu ft of air and the entire concrete ballast tank/structure originally weighed 7000 lbs but now less, since I eliminated about 1500 lbs in the front. There are no holes in the front shell as of yet but with the planned attitude of the nose slightly downward any air should bleed out the back, I may put some holes in there however. I have much more ballast volume than I do pressure hull volume. ballast volume - 150 cu ft ( including concrete) to pressure hull volume of 107 cu ft. </FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Brian</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style=""><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">--- personal_submersibles@psubs.org wrote:</SPAN><BR><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">From: River Dolfi via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] sub test</SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:10:27 -0500</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brian,<DIV>How much additional submerged buoyancy do you have in your concrete bow? It seems to me, that all of your buoyancy is in the pressure-hull in back, and all the weight is in the concrete MBT's up front. Without supplemental buoyancy in the front, and possibly lead weight in the back, the thing should take a sphere-up attitude underwater.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>What is your reserve-of-buoyancy (ROB) or displacement of your main ballast tanks, divided by total sub displacement/air weight, expressed as a percentage. Most submarines are in the 10-15% ROB range.</DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>Also, are there free-flood holes in the oyster-shell looking fo'c'sle cover over the nose? It seems to me that it could be trapping a large bubble while submerged.</DIV><DIV><DIV><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV dir="ltr"><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV dir="ltr">-River J. Dolfi<DIV><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:rdolfi7@gmail.com">rdolfi7@gmail.com</A></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">
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