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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] How much drop weight?
DJACKSON99@aol.com wrote:
> It actually is an idea borrowed from Simon Lake's Argonaut. Here is
> the design on a book cover. The items labeled "B" are the ballast.
> http://www.tamu.edu/upress/BOOKS/1999/bigpoluw.htm
Cool picture. That looks like a fun place to hang out in.
> In a 1 ATM I think you'd would want to be able to cut free of the
> line. The line could add to fowling problems, and it adds to the
> complexity.
Of course, you could have a *second* pin to pull, that would ditch the
whole winch assembly.
>> Even if you weren't near the bottom. If the drop weight were attached
>> by a winch cable, you could pull the safety pins and just start
>> reeling it out. When it hit bottom, you'd start going up, nice and
>> slow. You could stop as often as you wanted.
>
> Didn't think of that. Would be nice to drop it on a sandy bottom and
> hover 20 feet up beside a reef, sit back and have lunch.
And hey, I didn't think of *that* -- you could use it for everyday, not
just special occasions (emergencies). Anchor-/slash/-drop weight. And
for a submarine, an anchor to be really handy ought to work in 3
dimensions, as opposed to the 2 we expect for surface boats. ("He is
intelligent, but his pattern suggests... 2-dimensional thinking.")