Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Using a commercially available hatch as an emergency esca...

["Greg Cotton" <gregc02@attglobal.net>]

The short answer is that you won't get cut by the flying pieces and will make a better looking corpse, if 
they ever recover your body.

Date sent:      	Wed, 08 May 2002 11:12:09 -0600
From:           	Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>
To:             	personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject:        	Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Using a commercially available hatch as an emergency 
	esca...
Send reply to:  	personal_submersibles@psubs.org

> Now I'm curious.  If a sub's hull can do a depth of say, 900 feet, but
> is limited because the glass/lexan/plexiglass won't go below 200 feet,
> wouldn't it help some if you were to back the porthole material with
> something like an expanded steel screen?  That way, in the event of an
> accident, the porthole does not explode inward.  Yes water does get in,
> but not in the explosive manner.  Of course this is theory only, so tell
> me where this idea is wrong.
> Carl
>