[PSUBS-MAILIST] University of Arizona Project

["Jacob Lauser" <sirius@riverstyx.com>]

Okay, folks, here's the scoop. Hopefully, I will have a crisp Busby lurking
in my mailbox when I return to Arizona next week, and I can really kick into
high gear with our PSUBS project at the University of Arizona. As some of
you know, I am a 23-year-old sophomore of electrical and mechanical
engineering, a licensed aircraft mechanic, and I also hold pretty much all
commercial and amateur radio licenses offered in the U.S. After many months
of planning, probably to be followed by many more, I have drafted the
proposal which will hopefully get our project started at the University.
Many people look at me strangely when I mention building a submarine in the
desert, but I say, why not!? Should you be limited just by how much water
you have out back? We have several ports in Mexico which are only about 50
miles away for final testing. California is within striking distance too, if
the need arose. Anyway, we have the designers at hand, we have help here on
PSUBS, and with the glut of tech companies around Tucson, I would say we
have the financial pool and expertise to get started. So, on that note, I
have dubbed our project "UASUBS", which stands for "University of Arizona
Student Underwater Buoyancy System". It will be a 3-man sub designed for
shallow work up to 400 feet made from HY-80 or HY-100 steel. I will soon be
making a webpage (for sponsors and interested people to take a gander at),
and will be recruiting a faculty sponsor. The timeline for this is around 3
years, more or less. Wish us luck, and I'm sure I'll be on here picking
everyone's brains on this one. After all, someone's got to compete with
Carsten! Er, well, maybe we're just continuing Carsten's trend... We
couldn't even compete with that monster he's building! =) Ciao for now!

- Jacob Lauser
  University of Arizona