Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Anchor System

[Lew Clayman <lew_clayman@yahoo.com>]

--- Ed Greany <crest25@attglobal.net> wrote:
> Sounds reasonable. How would you handle the situation as follows:
> 
> Water is 200' deep. Your sub has a maximum depth of 150' but you want to
> stay at 100' in one place. Perhaps to photo something - a shelf or
> whatever. How would you hover in one place at a specified depth without
> being subject to travel by the current?

Is this a one-person sub?

If not, then you have (still) the world's best and most reliable real-time
computer-controlled autopilot... a human pilot who is not the photographer in
question.

-L

PS Can't get the prop caught in the anchor line, if there is no anchor line.


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