Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: high speed subs

["D. Blake" <dblake@bright.net>]

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From: VBra676539@aol.com <VBra676539@aol.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Date: Friday, February 25, 2000 5:10 PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: high speed subs


>Sorry, I fat fingered the keyboard.

I bet she enjoyed that!

>They used a torpedo motor/battery pack with counter-rotating props, and I
think it ran 16 or 17 knots. There >were two 5' diameter aluminum spheres
(electronics & sonar in front/crew in second sphere) then the battery >pack
and then the propulsion unit. It might have been 25 feet overall, or a
little longer, and was completely >enclosed in a streamlined shell.

WOW! Now that sub displaces some water.  Even if it was streamlined, it
would take some serious power to make 16-17 knots.  Please, tell us some
more about the propulsion unit if you have any information.

>Vance
>