<DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Alan, </FONT></FONT><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"> Turning upside down is not an option. Lead in the keel would fall which would keep the sub in an upside down position. I don't think there is anyway that could possibly happen unless a whale decided to do that on porpoise. I think I will put a bit more lead in the keel and go from there. </FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif">Brian</FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><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: Alan via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org></SPAN><BR><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <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, 16 Aug 2020 12:25:10 +1200</SPAN><BR><BR><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Brian,</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Could you get the sub to right if it turned upside down?</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Personally I don't think it will, because you have got it to its most</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">precarious stage with just the conning tower out of the water. </DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">If it tipped to one side the conning tower would give it flotation & stop</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">it going right over. </DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">An experienced Triton pilot told me he gets under the water as fast as he</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">can, because that's when you are the most unstable.</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Alan</DIV><DIV style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><BR>On 15/08/2020, at 1:34 PM, Alan via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV>Great news Brian.</DIV><DIV>That conning tower will give you instability when it's just out of</DIV><DIV>the water, but floatation & stability when you are under.</DIV><DIV>I think you should have gone down as far as you could.</DIV><DIV>You went down to its most unstable point & didn't fall over!</DIV><DIV>Great that you don't need the hoist!</DIV><DIV>Alan</DIV><DIV><BR>On 15/08/2020, at 8:42 AM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <<A href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</A>> wrote:<BR><BR></DIV><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><DIV style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif; font-size:10pt;"><FONT size="2" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Hi All,</FONT><DIV style=""><FONT size="2" style=""><FONT face="Arial, sans-serif"> Just got finished with yet another sub test down at the harbor. Wow ! went extremely well ! This time I felt confident enough to put it in at the launch ramp, sub very level upon floating it off the trailer. I had this giant flotation buoy on the front since I wasn't quite sure what to expect ! ( I've been surprised before) . Everything seemed fine so I untied the big buoy and let the sub sit naturally. It sat very level and nice! Submerged nicely and by the time all the air was expelled I was down. The first initial test was with the big buoy on the front , then untied the buoy and tried again . I had a bit of a list going down that got me a bit spooked so I came back up. But things are looking really good . I probably could have transitioned through that list and gone down all the way but decided to come back up. What I want to do is add a bit more ballast lead and then try again. It's amazing what chopping off 6 feet off the front of your sub will do !! </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">Sorry no video but I do have a few stills that I will try to get up. But all in all things are finally looking really good. </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></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"> </FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><SPAN>_______________________________________________</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</A></SPAN><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BLOCKQUOTE style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><DIV><SPAN>_______________________________________________</SPAN><BR><SPAN>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</A></SPAN><BR><SPAN><A href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</A></SPAN><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><SPAN style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">_______________________________________________
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