Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Questions, questions and more que

[TeslaTony@aol.com]

In a message dated 9/21/00 6:44:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Gregc02@ibm.net 
writes:

> Well if the weather got so extreme as to lose ALL of the worlds atmosphere 
> to outer space and 
>  you were now in a vacuum, you'd show about a 33 ft depth change. The 
little 
> 1 inch pressure 
>  changes (out of a 29.92 inch atmosphere) the weather does wouldn't amount 
to 
> more that a foot 
>  or two of variation. A regular pressure gauge will work just fine (about 
.44 
> lbs of pressure per foot 
>  of sea water) but most gauges will show relative pressure, so that if you 
> equalize your boat to 
>  sea pressure, your gauge will now read zero. The ones on my old diesel 
boat 
> were just plain old 
>  guages, calibrated in ft instead of psi. We had the BIG shallow guages for 
> precision at periscope 
>  depth and down to about 150 ft and when we went deeper we just shut the 
> stops for the shallow 
>  guages and ran on the one small deep guage that was set up for 600 ft. (we 
> never went any 
>  deeper than about 400 ft.) 
>  Here's my old boat:
>  
>  http://www.usstorsk.org/torsk.htm
>  
>  I don't know if this system supports pictures but I'll try. If it soesn't, 
> look at the control room 
>  pictures in the photo album (last set there, of decommisssioning; ones I 
> shot those many years 
>  ago. That's me, now, in the last picture.
>  Also, I any of you want to work on a full size boat, we could use the help 
> in Baltimore on the 
>  next work weekend in OCT...the dates are 20-22 Oct. We're trying to get it 
> back in some sort of 
>  condition; unfortunately not possible to get it in seaworthy shape. We do 
> have berthing space on 
>  the boat or on the USS Taney.
>  
>  Greg
>  
Okay, so that takes care of that problem, now all I have to do is find where 
to get all the stuff.

Anthony