Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Anchor System

["Eliezer Rodriguez" <eliezer_rodriguez@hotmail.com>]

Ed I really understand your point but I have to clear that in a circumstance
in which I couldn't re-surface, my life will deeply overweight the cost of
the sub to be lost. Alive I could find the money to build another, dead I
doubt it alot.

Eliezer Rodriguez
"The only thing in life to fear is fear itself."

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Greany" <crest25@attglobal.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Anchor System


> I guess this is where we part opinions. Personal subs should be limited
> to lakes, harbors, and waterways or ocean shores that do not exceed test
> depth. It is because we are, after all, amateurs at this submarine
> stuff. Even I, a former bubblehead, consider myself an amateur since I
> neither have the engineering background, education, or expertice to
> build a craft worthy of ocean-going trips. Unlike airplanes which come
> down naturally where they started and have parachutes as a backup,
> submarines only go deeper if something goes wrong and there are no
> parachutes. Perhaps you want to use your escape system but I don't want
> to bail out in a situation and lose an expensive craft.
>
> Ed
>
> VBra676539@aol.com wrote:
> >
> > Ed,
> >
> > Good submarining? You'll find most of the oceans are to hell and gone
deeper
> > than all but a small handful of subs can reach. Doesn't stop all the
> > mid-water research, nor does it stop the various world's navies from
going
> > here, there and everywhere. Depth control is a design function,
controlling
> > depth a pilot's responsibility. Thinking about the bottom is a ground
> > pounder's worry. Design and build well, and play the game by the rules,
and
> > your sub can operate safely anywhere. To get anywhere at all, one takes
the
> > first step. If it's a 50' vertical step, or a 350' step, so be it. Just
be
> > safe, plan the dives and dive the plans. Simple.
> >
> > Vance
>
>
>