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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fascinating stories
Thanks! Very good story. My boat is going to be so long (20') I might need that trick !
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carsten Standfuss" <MerlinSub@t-online.de>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 4:16 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fascinating stories
> Hi Brian,
>
> Brian Cox schrieb:
> >
> > Carsten, Please don't stop building but if you get a chance -
> >
> > I would like to hear : How to trim a passenger sub with the friendly kindness of the
> > seabottom (Gran Canaria tourist sub)-
> >
> > Brian Cox
>
> Just finished the last cut out for the stainless steel freshwater tank.
> And cut a died tree in the garden in small pieces for or oven.. oil and
> gas are expensive here.. and winter time is coming quick.
>
> Its over midnight here but I am not tired and so I will tell also this
> story.. ;-)
>
> It was 2 years ago.. - one times a year my old studie-colleges and I
> went for 3-5 days somewere to drink a beer or two - without our wifes
> childs, dogs, cats, submarines or other parts of our families..
>
> Normally we go sailing, windsurfing or para gliding or something like
> that. But in this year we decide to go to Gran Canaria just to looking
> into the sun.. and for colleges without wifes -looking for beach girls.
>
> So we sitting on the beach - some guys looking for the nicce topless
> girls - but I am married so I looking to the sea.. and saw a submarine
> surfacing !! Much more intressting - A yellow one.
>
> http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~bommel/pages/Submarine.htm
>
> I research that and found out that in the harbour next to our beach is a
> basis for a tourist submarine.
>
> For the reason that I never was inisde of one - and for the reason that
> I want to learn how they trim this dammed slow and underpowerd huge
> steel units.. All time other passengers - other weights - other seating
> positions.. so I purchased a 48 USD/euro ticket and go in.
>
> The vessel went out of the harbour and I managed my seat just behind the
> boths pilots..
>
> The pilot press some buttons.. some vales get open - obviously the
> forward tanks more than the aft tanks. After a couple of minutes - the
> boat hit the bottom in 18 m deep ( 60 feet) with the forward protector -
> just in front of the pilot. The pilot press another button - maybe to
> controll a pump. Until the time the forward protector lifted a little
> from the seafloor he stop to press the button and the boat was in
> trim.....
>
> After this procedure he start to drive the boat to the old in two parts
> broken fishing trawler wreck - and travel with a distance of below 2
> meter (6 feet) between the parts !
>
> I was not impressed by the way they trim the boat out.. but I was really
> impressed how close they drive this 109 ts monster to the sharp steel
> rests of the wreck.
>
> It is maybe a goo idear not to purchase a ticket for a tourist sub in a
> area were the seabottom is deeper than then maximum work deep of the
> boat..
>
> Good night sleep well... Carsten
>
>