Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Anchor System

["Ty Alley" <tydes@shreve.net>]

Are you all forgetting about the drop weight?
Ty
----- Original Message -----
From: Eliezer Rodriguez <eliezer_rodriguez@hotmail.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater Anchor System


> 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
> >
> >
> >
>