Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Actual water pressure

[CARRO@wans.net]

Hi Troy and P_Submariners
I am also ready to make that big splash...(money hitting the water)
I am starting a web page to document the experience, and both the sub and 
the page are new to me.
I've been making extensive use of the P_Sub web site and have all of you to 
thank for renewing my 6th 
grade dream.
I'm planing a 3 foot by 9 to 11 foot sub with 1/4 wall thickness and ribs 
per the spread sheet program to 
have a crush depth of 1600 feet or so.  My wildest dream would be a 600 foot 
dive to the bottom of Puget 
Sound.  
I'm probably going to buy the conning tower and hatch assy from Lake Diver 
in New York,  because of it's 
complexity and my lack of welding dissimular metals. 
I'm making two 6in x9in x 86 in side pods to house batteries compress air 
and hard balast.  I plan to also 
make a trailer that attaches to these side pods for over the road travel and 
launching.
I'm going to use two 36 lbs thrust MiniKota motors for propulsion.  Later, I 
have a jet thruster plan for fine 
tunning lateral movement while under water.
There is not much there yet but; Please vist my web page and feel free to 
scrutinize my design.
As always, I alone am responsible for my insanity. 
http://www.geocities.com/p_subman9/

--- Original Message ---
From: Troy Hambly <embalmer@ameritech.net>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Actual water pressure

>Thanks for the depth pressure calculations....I wasn't too far off using 
>my old dive scale then.  I just thought that 460psi at 1000 feet wasn't 
>all that bad and that I was doing the figures all wrong.   Now off to my 
>engineering friends to find out steel thickness and strengthening ribs, 
>and on and on and on.
>
>Everybody, please keep up the good work here and we'll all benefit from 
>safer submarine experiences.  I do like the idea of ZERO incidents.
>