Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fascinating stories

[Jeff Post <jeffpost@rawbw.com>]

Hi Steve,

The wheel on the NR-1 is to allow it to drive along the bottom rather than to
cushion it from impacts with the bottom.

JP

Quoting Steven Mills <cirtemoeg@juno.com>:

> One could borrow an idea from Simon Lake's Argonaut?
> 
> The NR-1 has a wheel [ or is it 2 wheels? ] at its keel. Perhaps these
> were used to cushion it from the bottom.
> 
> --Steve
> 
> 
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 23:09:31 -0700 Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com> writes:
> > I sure wouldn't use the bottom for trim.  I'm no expert on the
> > structural integrity of these machines, but I imagine if you kissed 
> > the
> > bottom enough, the integrity could at some point become fatigued or
> > compromised.  Even it is is *just sand*.  Travelling too close to
> > hazardous wreckage is not a show of skill, instead more like showing
> > stupidity.  In my humble, though uneducated, opinion that is.
> > Carl
> > 
> > 
> > Brian Cox wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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
> > > >
> > > >
> > 
> > -- 
> > "Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible" - F. 
> > Zappa
> > 
> 
> 
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