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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Underwater tent...
...and, if you feel real ambitious or want to add a split-level
to that underwater tent, may I suggest this :
http://fun.supereva.it/artificialisle/index.html
Or, perhaps we should all chip in and build a pSubs headquarters
and convention center ?
:- ) --Steve
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 09:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Warren Greenway
<opensourcesub@yahoo.com> writes:
> Cool! Thanks! One thing about that link that is
> interesting is that they are measuring PAR. I told the
> company I was working for that underwater PAR
> measurments would become important in the near future.
> They laughed. Hmmm. I designed a PAR instrument once
> before!
>
> Warren.
>
> --- Steven Mills <cirtemoeg@juno.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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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