<div dir="ltr">Jim, <br><br><div>I am usually just an interested fly on the wall for your discussions and would be interested in purchasing the sub whole, but I would have to haul it 2200 miles to my farm which would unfortunately make the price too high for me. I hope you find someone who is interested. Have you considered reaching out to the IEEE OES:
<a href="https://ieeeoes.org/contact-us/">Contact Us - The IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (ieeeoes.org)</a>? Someone like Merrick Haller may know of academic groups that may be interested in the sub.<div><br></div><div>V/R,</div><div>James</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 1:02 AM james hughes via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Hi Gang,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">I've been meaning to put this up on the General Discussion email list for sometime now but have had a lot of issues that I needed to deal with recently (some are still ongoing).</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Brian's Cox's sub is still for sale. For those of you who don't know much about this sub here a few details. Brian Cox passed away last July before doing under water sea trials with this boat. It went into the water a number of times but he still needed to make adjustments to the trim before he could dive it. It was recently determined that the 5 feet diameter sphere was out of round (something Brian never knew about). I don't know the thickness of the sphere but the fact it's out of round about 0.75 inches means that may not be safe to dive to much depth. It could be turned into an ambient sub with little trouble or, I guessing, that the inside could be reinforced. That being said, it might just be better to buy the thing for the parts. Teri (Brian's widow) is looking to get $2,000 for it. That's a bargain considering what you would get!! </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">First of all, there's the 3 axil trailer (with 6 good tires) which is probably worth $2,000 by itself. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Ten SCUBA tanks that are plumbed to a high pressure manifold and high pressure valves.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">About 600 pounds of lead ingots (retail, lead goes for $3.33 a pound around where I live in Orange County, CA)</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">A CO2 scrubber with absorbent inside</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">A CO2 meter</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">An O2 tank with a regulator</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">A bailout bottle with a regulator / pressure gauge</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">9 AGM batteries (they are Fullriver DC115-12 and sell for about $400 each). <b><i>IF</i></b> it turned out that the batteries were no longer able to hold a charge Teri said she would be willing to refund $1,000 to the buyer.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">There are 2 oil compensated motors (I believe they are 3 horsepower each)</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Fire extinguisher </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Life jacket</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">All of the portholes are made with the plexiglass that Brian annealed himself according to Stachiw's Acrylic Handbook. The thing has something like 12 portholes. It should be noted that if you were to cut off the conning tower to use it on another boat, this alone would probably save you well over 100 hours of shop work when you consider the milling that went into making the hatch and the lathe work that went into all the portholes (to say nothing of all the welding the conning tower involved). How much is your time worth?</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">There's also a marine radio</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Emergency signaling light</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Electronics associated with running the motors (motor controllers, fuses, etc.). This alone was probably not cheap.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Cabin pressure gauge that's made for a small submarine!</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Large depth gauge</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">It's actually registered as a boat in California!</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">All total, it's probably got over $10,000 worth of parts. Here's a link to 7 Youtube videos you might want to see (showing the evolution of the sub and it's sea trials) if you've not seen them yet: <a shape="rect" href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz_JObSMe33gn6l_szab4AA" style="color:rgb(25,106,212);text-decoration-line:underline" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCz_JObSMe33gn6l_szab4AA</a> When watching the videos you might notice that the boat got about 6 feet shorter in the end as Brian cut off 6 feet of the front to help with the trim. Attached are also a few pictures.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><i><b>If you are interested, please let me know ASAP </b>as the price of storing this thing has just gone up (like everything else!).</i>. </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Please let me know if you have any questions.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">God bless, Jim</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">(858) 361-1863</div></div><br></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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