Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Waterproof controls

[DJACKSON99@aol.com]

I think an dry ambient should be able to hover at decompression stops. I don't want to stay with an ambient sub that lost its buoyancy or ballast. And I'd want to get free of the sub quickly, with an independent air supply. I plan on wearing my scuba weight belt with a spare air bottle and either an inflatable vest or BCD even if I plan to stay dry.
-- Doug Jackson


In a message dated 4/18/2003 4:52:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, thijs-struijs@planet.nl writes:

> Yes i think that you are right, but escaping from an 1 atm. sub means that you stayed for a very short time under pressure. I mean flooding a sub or a lock-out chamber takes less than a minute. Diving in an ambient or wet sub means that you stayed for a longer time at a certain depth and that you have to respect the decompression-rules. I think that this is a big difference.   
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> Thijs Struijs
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> As far as I know, it's only dangerous if you hold your breath. The Navy equips subs with Steinke (spelling?) hoods, that allow the sailor to exit the sub a hundred feet below water, and as long as they breathe on the way up, they are ok. The hoods, I believe, are very postively bouyant, thus shooting the sailor up rapidly. 
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