Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] johnson-sea-link disaster

["Mark Steed" <plutomark@mail.astate.edu>]

Wow!-What a great piece of information and resource-Thanks and 
regards, Mark Steed


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Jonathan Wallace <jon@psubs.org>
Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:11:11 -0400 (EDT)

>
>Hello,
>
>I found the official Coast Guard/NTSB report on the 1973 

Johnson-Sea-Link
>submersible disaster in which two people died due to carbon 

dioxide 
>poisoning.  It is in PDF format and located at
>http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/moa/boards/johnsealink.pdf
>
>For those of you who have, or want to incorporate, life support 

in your
>PSUB in the form of a carbon dioxide scrubber, this report is a 

*must*
>read.  The effect of temperature on various chemicals used as 

scrubber
>material greatly effects its performance.  Busby addresses this 

issue
>in his book as well.  The report also effectively documents the 

dangers
>of hooks and other appendages on submersibles that can become 

entangled
>underwater.     
>
>Jon
>