Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] World's Smallest Submarine?

["Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>]

Hi Doc,

The one we never got to see was DEEP FLYER, and I think it might be
different from DEEP FLIGHT.  Thanks anyway for the link, though.

The canopies we were speaking of are on a new dry sub design called DEEP
RANGER.  Really looks like the old REEF RANGER wetsub.  Actually, we were
exercising a little literary license comparing it to an F-16 canopy.

Hey, I really really like your Dolphin.

Know what you mean about "fast trans-surface adrenaline toys'.  I've got a
steel teardrop hull downstairs that's earmarked for a high-speed
shallow-depth submersible; any chance you can help me get ahold of a jet
canopy or something on that order?  I want to buy  something that's
transparent, but not flat or hemispherical: streamlining is important.

Pat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas A. Rowe" <doc@bionicdolphin.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 6:53 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] World's Smallest Submarine?


> Hi Pat
>
>  You can find a picture of Graham's Deep Flight if that's the one you're
> looking
> for at http://www.deepflight.com/subs/index.htm
>
>  The F-16 canopies we have been using are rather tricky to seal. We
finally
> ended
> up with overlapping seams and pneumatic seals. Although the F-16 is in the
> neighborhood
> of 3/4 of an inch thick it is made up in a sandwich of 5 layers, the
center and
> thickest layer
> is polycarbonate, which is great for impact resistance but lousy for
pressure
> resistance.
>  Since we are building very fast trans. surface adrenaline toys right now
the
> impact resistance
> has been our #1 priority. The visibility in these big asymmetrical bubbles
is
> just too cool!
>
> Doc