Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] hot sub

["Dale" <heinzind@telusplanet.net>]

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From: "Alec Smyth" <Asmyth@changepoint.com>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 6:50 AM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] hot sub


> I went diving yesterday and had an interesting conversation with the dive
boat operator. It turns out Graham Hawkes was here (Key Biscayne, FL) some
months ago with Aviator and a Discovery film crew. They hired the dive boat
to tow Aviator out to dive sites and back. The tows were almost 2 hours each
way, and Graham had to be aboard for the entire two-way trip on account of
low freeboard preventing the domes being opened at sea. Here's the
interesting bit I hadn't thought of... the temperature in Aviator's cabin
reached 120 degrees (that would be 49 Celsius) during the tows. They were
putting wet towels on the acrylic domes during the tow, and on one occasion
turned back and aborted the dive because of the heat. BTW the water
temperature yesterday was 80F / 27C. I presume there was no machinery heat
source on the boat since Aviator was just being towed, but the two acrillyc
domes must have worked well as greenhouses, there is some black anodized
aluminum, and the sub is pain!
>  ted deep blue. I guess this is another reason to paint your boat silver
or white!
>
> cheers,
>
> Alec
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I have been towed short distances in my sub, and let me tell you...its HOT..
in fact one time, I let air out of the ballast so I could sink under the
waves, just to cool it off...
   I cannot imagine 2 hrs each way
dale.




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