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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Unconventional UW Propulsion YIKES!
Steve, you have a warped sense of humor but I had to laugh.( I'd make you a
spirulina (fresh form the rebreather) smoothie with some horse tranquilizer
in it before you got me :-) ) I'm sure I could think up a better method of
conserving oxygen though. You know, this could be the beginning of a thread
that saved someone's life one day.
What are the does and don'ts when you find yourself trapped on the bottom,
low on air (with a shipmate that looks low on air, hungry and unstable
! )and low on battery power. You have also not been able to get an emergency
message out.
You have used up all your ballast air without success.
Do you use your last HP oxygen to try for one last blow on the ballast tanks
(my sub would be piped up to be able to do this, is this common ?) or
conserve it.
Do you use your last battery power to use your HP water pump to pump out
the water in the bilge's. Your drop weight having already being released.
Seems like the decisions to be made, would be numerous if the sub was well
set up and you had drilled yourself on all the options. Of course, well
before the oxy ran out or the CO2 got too high, while I still had a
reasonably clear head, I would try to equalize the sub and head for the
surface in the morning so the search and rescue would have a better shot at
finding me.
I've read a lot of good ideas on the PSUB site for the emergency raising of
your sub, like the air bags gassed up by small explosives or a drop weight
that automatically releases at a predetermined depth. Or the motor/prop
units that can be released if they get fouled up on a net or whatever.
This could get some of the conservative minds thinking with creative flair
:-)
Regards,
Karl.
----- Original Message -----
From: S W <stephenwhite20@yahoo.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2000 2:12 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Unconventional UW Propulsion YIKES!
>
> --- Karl Fuller <fullerk@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
> > You know, for a country with a constitution that
> > says people have the
> > freedom of speech, there seems to peolpe who are
> > uncomfortable with that.
> > It's OK to say what you think about a knew idea
> > isn't it ? You don't have to
> > buy it, or like it, agree with it. I think it's
> > simply disrespectful to try
> > to categorize because of it, or get overtly
> > critical or cynical because you
> > disagree. But truely constructive critisism, has
> > it's place.
> > On the other side of the coin, lets not be so thin
> > skinned either !
> > Hey, we aren't even trapped underwater in a sub
> > together.If we were, from my
> > experience at sea, I can see there would be some
> > real good tensions
> > mounting, especially if we had to devise an escape
> > plan together ! Or maybe
> > we would stop being so petty and work well together
> > :-)
>
> I agree with you 100%. However, I think that if I were
> trapped in a submarine with you, I would choke you to
> death to conserve air.
>
> Your PSUB buddy,
> Steve
>
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