Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] escape & rescue

[MerlinSub@t-online.de (Carsten Standfuss)]

Hi Doug, I will fit in Euronaut : 

- a good propeller protection
- 10 ts of normal softank lift 
-  1 ts more lift from the hardtank
-  3 ts more from the drop weight
-  An life support endurance with over a week
-  an diver exit chamber and 2-3 divers including tools
-  Stenke Houds for each crew member 
   and last but not least since the disscusion of today : 
- a rope cutter on the propeller shaft

Euronaut will survive a net to 80 percent I would say.. ;-) 

regards Carsten

SeaLordOne@aol.com schrieb:
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> Shipmates,
> 
> I would like your views on escape and rescue.
> 
> As to the original "caught in a net" problem, I have the impression that the average psub would lack the power or bouyancy to escape a large net.  These new mega nets, do they call them drift nets?, are many miles long and many tons heavy.  About 10 years ago I read of a section of net three miles long that had broken off and was killing porposes off the US coastline. I don't see how anything short of Carsten's U-Boat could survive an encounter with that much net.  Does anyone know any more about these mega nets?  Are there still large sections floating loose out there?
> 
> Then comes rescue.  Who is going to come to our rescue?  I get the impression from reading the paper that the U.S. Coast Guard has been largly re-purposed for homeland security, and that private boat towing firms are the closest thing to a "rescue operation" most boats see these days.  Do you still think the Coast Guard would/could help us?
> 
> Doug Farrow