DOER was Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Delurking

[Michael Wright <mwright@dnai.com>]

Hi Jeff,

Yeah, I umm caught that message a bit late.  That week I was in the 
middle of designing a DH system that we uhh "set an aggressive schedule 
on".  My apologies on not having caught it.  Currently we only have a 
full size model of the deep worker in the shop.

If we end up with a sub in the shop again I'll let you know.  If you're 
in the neighborhood you can drop by and have a tour of the shop.  I'll 
probably be in texas next week but someone will be around.

As far as what we have an what we do:

There's a surface fresh water test tank and an in ground 14' deep test 
tank up at the Skyline location (it's kidney shaped and heated I hear 
:).  In the six months I've been there I've never seen either of them 
used.  We don't have a pressure test pot since large pressure vessels 
are a big regulatory pain (along with being dangerous).  We do have an 
Ennerpak hydraulic pump with an accurate gauge that we use for 
calibrating depth transmitters.

We have a full machine shop, a pretty full welding shop, and a really 
good foam shop.  We also have a reasonably good electronics lab.  All 
this with only 6 people.

We build, repair, lease, sell, operate, modify, and sometimes even 
design pretty much everything relating to Remotely Operated Vehicles.  
We also operate Nuytco manned submersibles when someone finds funding 
for a project.  At this time a lot of the items we do still relate 
closely to the DOE Phantom ROV (an impressive vehicle considering the 
level of technology in the early 1990s when they were designed).

Basically clients come up with things they would like to do and we take 
off the shelf items along with some custom built parts and put together 
a solution.  We've been doing a lot of Fiber-Optic camera systems 
lately.

DOER is not affiliated in any way with Deep Ocean Engineering in it's 
current incarnation.  The DOE name was one of the assets sold when DOE 
last went out of business.


On the topic of supplying parts to psubers:

I'll have to check with our president to be sure but we are in the 
business of selling new and used components and systems for underwater 
vehicles.  We are a SubConn (underwater whips and bulkheads) dealer and 
have a pretty good inventory.  We also do custom electrical whips and 
sell potting compound and molds.

It's not uncommon for us to do orders of one to five pieces.  Many of 
our clients are small and mid size diving companies that own an ROV or 
two.

I don't have visibility on pricing for any of the stuff we do so I 
can't help anyone out there.

I hope that answers most of your questions.

mike



On Friday, Nov 15, 2002, at 09:11 US/Pacific, Jeff Post wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Welcome, and thanks for the pictures. Since you've been lurking, you 
> undoubtedly
> read my messages about Aquarius, and my desire to see the sub up 
> close. If there
> are ever any future opportunities to see an subs at DOER, I'm sure the 
> very
> loose knit group of Bay Area devotees would welcome your invitation.
>
> Mike, do you think that DOER could be a valuable commercial resource 
> for any
> PSUB'ers building their own. What I mean is, can DOER supply ( for $$ 
> of course
> ) parts? I also noted that you have a pressure test vessel in Oakland, 
> and that
> might be useful to sub builders. Perhaps an explanation from you about 
> DOER's
> business will eliminate the mystery, and possibly even grow your 
> company.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Post
>
>
> Quoting Michael Wright <mwright@dnai.com>:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> I've been lurking here off and on for a while now and figure it's time
>>
>> to introduce myself.
>>
>> I'm in my mid twenties, I work not quite full time at DOER designing
>> and building ROV telemetry systems and whatever else comes up.  Before
>>
>> the .com implosion I was a Project Manager and Network Engineer.
>>
>> My current area of expertise is micro-controllers and using them to
>> interface various pieces of off the shelf hardware together.  I also 
>> do
>>
>> some com system design, some machining, and some electronics.
>>
>> As one can guess from my working at DOER I'm located in the SF East 
>> Bay
>>
>> Area, Ca, USA.
>>
>> If anyone has any questions about compasses or other electronics I'd 
>> be
>>
>> happy to answer them.
>>
>> At this point I don't plan to build my own sub any time soon.  If
>> anyone needs help with stuff I'm good at on their sub I can probably
>> make time to help out.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for the wonderful discussions.
>>
>> mike
>>
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