Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] My Last Posting... Thanks to all!

["Adam Lawrence" <adteleka@in-tch.com>]

Come on Hugo. I am by no means saying that VBT's have no place in industry.
You are making some great points and giving us insight into your job, but
your recent methods of validating some points are questionable.
Please continue with your input, speaking boldly is encouraged and if
repercussion comes, don't fear it by bowing out.

Adam


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hugo Marrero" <HMarrero@hboi.edu>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 7:37 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] My Last Posting... Thanks to all!


> To all P-subbers,
>
> I hope that all of you enjoy designing and building your own subs.
Certainly
> all of you can do as you wish as all of us are free-willed entities.
>
> My input on the VBT's is not from a narrow viewpoint of view, neither it
is
> from my originality or the result of a company made dictionary as some may
> indicate in their comments. Many of you who have Busby's book and other
> reference works such as the ABS rules, Det Norske Veritas Rules, LLoyds
> Registry Rules, etc. etc.; understand, accept, and appreciate the value,
> wisdom and safety of a VBT system, and will see that this is an
> industry-wide accepted concept. It is the viewpoint of an entire industry,
> and the engineering community in general, not a group of people in cohoots
> in a company trying to make their own internal lingo to separate
themselves
> from the World.
>
> If VBT's had no value as some may infer, they would not even be mentioned
in
> the engineering books. Indeed, many subs which are intended for shallow
> water service do have VBT's as as integral part of their ballast and trim
> system, and it is a requirement for their safe operation.
>
> Sure, you don't need 72 hours of life support in your subs, and you don't
> need to have O2 and CO2 monitors, and you don't need to have thermal
> blankets, emergency food, emergency drinking water, emergency air,
emergency
> Oxygen, extra batteries, spare light bulbs, or a toolkit to dive a sub.
It's
> all deadweight right? After all, all they do is take extra space and cost
a
> lot of money, it's a hassle to deal with, and it just doen't make sense to
> you .... until the day you see yourself helplessly entangled in the bottom
> by a 50 lb test fishing line that you didn't see.
>
> Last time I checked, I didn't  have the idea market cornered. VBT's are
not
> my idea, they are the result of over a 100 years of trial and error at the
> expense of human lives. If some want to reject the true value of a solid,
> time-tested and proven concept to save money, because in their own wisdom
> they reason that they don't need it; that is their God given choice! More
> power to them! Great ideas are born out of both ignorance and knowledge,
> ignorance just takes more lives with it as it builds knowledge. Good and
bad
> ideas prove themselves by virtue of their design throughout the test of
> time. VBT's have passed the test with flying colors!
>
> I am not trying to place myself above anyone here. Neither I intend to
> diminish an "experienced" member's credibility as it is being stated by
> some. If the postings are read chronologically, please notice whose
> credibility was "diminished" first.
>
> I do intend to instill safety, and I am, and will always be as
> straight-forward  as I can be with all. Some can deal with that, and some
> don't. If I am correct, this is how this country was made, by people
> corageous enough to speak their mind boldly without fear of of the
> repercussions.
>
> As a last comment, I want to express my gratitude to those who want to
> learn, and to be safe. To you, my hat goes off to you. This will be my
last
> unsolicited comment on this site. I will keep monitoring the postings, but
> will restrain from commenting again.
>
> Farewell and happy diving. I thank all for your sincere comments.
>
> Kindest Regards,
>
> Hugo Marrero
>
>
>
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