Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater tent...

[Steven Mills <cirtemoeg@juno.com>]

This isn't exactly a tent for habitation or saturation diving. But it is
similar to something I built as a 14 year old kid quite by accident.
I'll forgo the story behind it, but I ended up building a small quonset
style tent using electrical conduit pipe for a frame [ that's all I had
available to me ] the bottom part of the pipe frame packed with sand.
It wasn't elaborate or incorporate any venting, but was great on a
hot summers day and watching blue gill and bass [ or were they
watching me  : )  ]  It was in a pond about 15 feet under.

--Steve

http://sofia.usgs.gov/publications/ofr/00-361/sharq.html


On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:16:18 -0700 (PDT) Warren Greenway
<opensourcesub@yahoo.com> writes:
> Yeah, I was thinking of something similar...But here's
> the catch. Make your panels out of the fiber
> reinforced
> recycled tire material and use belting and adhesive
> to hold the pieces together. I like the concrete
> approach, but I wonder how you would assemble it?
> Would you pour the sections on a barge and lower them
> into place over a temporary structure? I have wondered
> about building on the bottom, but it seems that the
> uncertain and silty nature of the bottom would make
> it more desirable to float on a tether...Hmmm. 
> 
> Warren.
> 
> --- Brian Cox <ojaibees@ojai.net> wrote:
> > What I have thought of before was a geodesic dome
> > where all of the tiangles are made of reeforced
> > concrete (concrete is my life !) .The dome could be
> > assembled on land first and then taken apart and
> > reasembled under water, the triangles would
> > interlock and then assembled underwater and membrain
> > would be fitted to the inside of the dome so no air
> > would escape through cracks.  The wieght of the
> > cement triangles would keep the dome on the floor of
> > the ocean.
> > 
> > Brian
> > 
> >  ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Warren Greenway" <opensourcesub@yahoo.com>
> > To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:14 AM
> > Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater tent...
> > 
> > 
> > > Well, that's the type of application I was
> > thinking
> > > of.
> > > Marine research, salvage, general diver support,
> > etc.
> > > I am thinking in the 20'-30' range for this. Time?
> > > Well...From hours to semi-permanent. One thing
> > that
> > > I want to try some day is a completely closed-loop
> > 
> > > hydroponics experiment. One of these tents could
> > make
> > > that possible for a reasonable cost.
> > > 
> > > Warren.
> > >  
> > > --- NeophyteSG@aol.com wrote:
> > > > Warren,
> > > > 
> > > > What do you see yourself using it for?  All of
> > the
> > > > times that I've seen a 
> > > > similar apparatus used has been by marine
> > biology
> > > > researchers doing fish counts 
> > > > and similar bottom studies.  What depth are you
> > > > planning on using the tent at?  
> > > > How big?  How long do you expect/plan/want to
> > > > inhabit it?
> > > > 
> > > > Warm Regards
> > > > Shawn
> > > > 
> > > > *****
> > > > 
> > > > "Call nothing thy own except thy soul.
> > > > Love not what thou art, but only what thou may
> > > > become.
> > > > Do not pursue pleasure, for thou may have the
> > > > misfortune to overtake it...
> > > > Live in the vision of that one for whom great
> > deeds
> > > > are done ..." 
> > > > 
> > > > Man of LaMancha, D. Wasserman
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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