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Ah yes. Those radioactive wrecks would of course be
the exception. They would have to stay down until no longer radioactive and if
by then anything was left, future generations
could recover them. I agree totally with you there
Solomon.
Kindest Regards,
Bill Akins.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:43 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hunley
Having most sunken subs on display would be nice. I
for one
would like to keep some of those russian
radioactive nightmares far far
away though :).
--- Akins <lakins1@tampabay.rr.com>
wrote:
> Hi Brian.
>
> I am jealous! I can't wait to see
the Hunley
> replica. Also hopefully to see the original one day
>
when she is out of her fresh water tank.
>
> I hope they find the
Alligator soon also. I would
> like to see Simon Lake and other early
subs
> recovered for preservation as well. WW1 and WW2 subs
>
too.
>
> To me submarines are special among wrecks. They
>
represent the very best technology of their times
> and mans quest to
explore another atmospheric world.
>
> If I had my way every one
of them that ever sunk
> would be recovered and put on display. Every
last
> one.
>
> Kindest regards,
>
> Bill
Akins.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Cox
> To: Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org
> Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:55 AM
>
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hunley
>
>
> Hi
All,
>
I saw the Hunley today! Very
> interesting boat. I had
just planned to go down to
> Channel Islands Harbor take a quick look
and then
> turn around and come back and work on a couple of
>
projects, I ended up staying half the day.
>
>
The sub was set up outside the maritime museum
> with local civil war
re-enactors in full civil war
> garb. However there happened to be
one fellow that
> had a blue jump suit on with a very distinct
>
southern drawl who seemed to know quite a bit about
> the boat, I come
to find out he built the replica.
>
> Not only did he
build the replica but apparently
> he was the first one they called when
they actually
> opened the Hunley up. He described in detail
how
> they went about removing the rivets on the rounded
>
panels.
>
> Luckily he didn't mind talking about the
sub, in
> fact he was one hell of a storyteller / welder and a
>
proud southerner to boot.
>
> I'm sure many of
y'all already know the whole
> story of how the boat sunk twice before
it's final
> mission when it sunk the Housatonic. All of
the
> first two crews where lost. When they recovered the
>
boat they had a little problem.
>
> The bodies
had been in there a while and they
> were all bloated. They
couldn't get the bodies out
> thru the hatches so a guy had to climb
down in there
> and cut the bodies into chunks that were big
enough
> to get out thru the hatches.
>
> I learned stuff I didn't even want to know !!
>
> Anyway John filled me in on all the gory details,
> I tried to steer the topic back to the operation of
> the sub
and he was more than willing to oblige me!
>
> The
sub is really a very sound design. It is very
> interesting how
they work the ballast tanks, they
> had pumps to pump the water
out so they could
> surface, and they also had a depth gage tube
which
> was calibrated to 66 ft . The ballast tanks were
>
actually open to the interior of the sub. They had
> valving to
pump water out of the tanks or out of the
> bilge if they needed.
They had a snorkel that was
> worked with a bellows.
>
> The 7 crank handles were each off set by 51
>
degrees so as to balance out thrust of the muscle
> power. It was
truly a 1 atm sub even though the air
> would get compressed somewhat
when water was let in
> to make the thing negative buoyant.
>
> The ballast tanks were in each end of the
boat
> where the sub tapers, and they were open to the
> inside.
Only partitioned off by a steel panel with
> the top of the panel open
at the top curved portion
> of the sub.
>
>
Brian Cox
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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