Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Unconventional UW Propulsion YIKES!

[S W <stephenwhite20@yahoo.com>]

hahahahahaa
Ok Karl, Im sure most people on the PSUBS forum are
for tranquilizing me, but do you think we should be
dining on our swamp breather if we are low on O2? 


--- Karl Fuller <fullerk@voyager.co.nz> wrote:
> 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
> :-)



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