RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How much drop weight?

["Alec Smyth" <Asmyth@changepoint.com>]

Pierre, on second thoughts if you have that much weight left over, why
not just put it into something more useful and increase the battery
capacity?

-----Original Message-----
From: pierre&marie [mailto:poulin.carrier@videotron.ca] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:44 PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How much drop weight?

Thanks guys for the reply.

Well, 850 pounds of drop weight = nothing can keep you entengle on the
bottom. But you will explode lung/hull/viewport...

And, 0 pound of drop weight? Hum... not very confortable with that.
Better
to explode lungs then to die at the bottom...

How about a rope from the dropped weight to the sub with a brake of some
kind? Just an idea.

Any comments?


Pierre "entengle must have an A somewhere..." Poulin

P.S. Oh, and Marie-Andree say hi! And she still don't want me to put BIG
inside water with me inside. I think she missed the whole concept here.
Anyway...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alec Smyth" <Asmyth@changepoint.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How much drop weight?


> Pierre,
>
> I think if it were a dry sub, the answer would be "as much as
possible".
> But in an ambient sub, dropping too much weight would actually be
> dangerous. So I'd say "as much as possible, so long as you can drop it
> in small increments". Very precise of me, hehe.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Alec
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pierre Poulin [mailto:pipo305@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 4:46 PM
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How much drop weight?
>
>
>
> Hi all!
>
> I have question.
>
> My sub weight now 350 pounds. It will have to weight about 1200
pounds.
> So I
> have to had 850 pounds of weight to get it under water.
>
> How much of that 850 pounds should I use as drop weight? Remember, My
> sub is
> a dry-ambient design to use at max 30 feet...
>
> Thank you!
>
> Pierre Poulin
>
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