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Re: Escape drills? [was: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Steinke Hoods]
The german navy did it the same way in a big tank 36 m deep
with a escape submarine hatch on the bottom.
http://www.benjamin-franz.de/vorwort/benjamin/aktuell/Aktuell_Neustadt_Holstein/body_aktuell_neustadt_holstein.html
http://www.unterwasserwelt.de/html/franz_tauchtopf.html
For psubers a good way of escape drill will be scuba-diving..
..a experince scuba diver knows what he has to do with the
escape hood.
I purchase just 6 units from Alec (thanks Alec) for my crew of 3-5
heads. All scuba divers..
Carsten
Emile schrieb:
>
> The Dutch navy submariners practice on regular base an escape from 30 M (100
> ft) in a tank without any problems. volunteers can go deeper but there is a
> risk for the eardrums .
> If the navy offer me a free ride (20-30 M) i will go...
>
> Grs. Emile
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Roxborough" <irox@ix.netcom.com>
> To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2003 3:41 AM
> Subject: Escape drills? [was: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Steinke Hoods]
>
> >
> > Escape drills maybe?
> >
> > I know I would feel a little happier if I could practice an
> > underwater exit, even if just once. I've no real wish to
> > design a submarine which can be flood (my pillows would get wet!),
> > but I would like to practice flooding and exiting a submerged
> > submarine. Preferably from around 10 feet deep or so, I've no
> > wish to find out what it is like from 350 feet or even 130 feet.
> > Other than it taking longer to flood the submarine and taking
> > less time to 'travel' to the surface, I don't think praticing
> > escape drills from shallows would be much different (other than
> > making it easier to recover the submarine afterwards).
> >
> > I'm guessing that the submarine could be recovered by a diver,
> > close the hatch used to exit and fill the hull full of compressed
> > air to clear out the water.
> >
> > Ian.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 20:43:06 -0500
> > Michael B Holt <tlohm@juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just thinking about the hoods while watching the little monsters
> > > collect candy ...
> > >
> > > Are the hoods resuable? After we escape once, can we go back
> > > and do it again? (Presumably, the second use would be for a
> > > totally different reason.)
> > >
> > > I'm just curious. I have no desire ever to use one: that would
> > > be am admission of error on my part!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
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