Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Prone pilot position

[Michael Edwards <me@sustainkauai.org>]

Hi Mike;

You have been missing out on good visibility ;-)

A lot of submersibles that I have seen or been in, have a view port on
the bottom where you stick your face right up close, often in prone
for working with manipulators or for observation. I agree that you
wouldn't want to go fast with very limited visibility.

Where I live, a few hundred feet visibility is normal, you can see a long
way off.

Michael Edwards

Michael B Holt wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 20:32:23 -1000 Michael Edwards  writes:
> >
> >A very difficult position to "work" from for any time.
> >The big advantage in a sub is getting your eyes close up to the bottom
> >where the "action" is.
>
> In most places I have been so far, visibility is so limited that
> being close to the action is dangerous.   If one can see only
> two feet, at any speed that advantage vanishes.
>
> Mike Holt
>
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