<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">IOkay, repeat after me: “Vacuum pump.” It’ll save you a lot of grief.<div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 28, 2025, at 7:22 PM, Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" class="">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Congrats! I'd love to hear a more detailed account. I've had flooded thrusters, but that was in fresh water so they only required drying out.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" class="">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="">Finally got her wet! my port thruster flooded and was wondering if anyone else had that happen and were they able to recover it? some water in the bilges which was a bit disconcerting so next time in, there will be no floorboards. </div>
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