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Hi Herve.
Thanks for the rundown on the systems you have
aboard. After reading what you wrote I am thinking one word to describe
it,.....AWESOME! Because that's what it is, awesome what you have in this
boat.
I can picture it very well from your discription of
diving with the boat, strapped in my seat, reg in mouth, BCD totally deflated,
water closes over me,
nose pinching to equalize sinus pressure. Then
leaving, exploring, and coming back and seeing the people inside the cabin, then
surfacing. What a ride that would be. Wow!
Talk about a scuba diving boat! If I read you
correctly this is more a boat geared for exterior carry scuba diving with a
smaller cabin occupancy capacity than a tour sub as we think of typical tour
subs.
Good luck on your pool construction, it sounds very
impressive. A sub pilot school huh? Great! Your accomplishments speaks for
themselves. And from your website I see the Proteus is just one of
many subs you produce. If I didn't live so far away
from you in Hudson, Fl (near Tampa, Fl) I would love to tour your
facility and just soak in everything. Heck, if it was 30 years ago when I
was young and
hungry I would be pestering you for a job to dive
and just be around all these wonderful things. Truly impressive Herve.
I know you will have no shortage of divers wanting
to go under with the Proteus, but if you ever by chance import any to my area
and need volunteer divers for demonstrations or something, keep me in mind will
you?
As you said, that would be one dive I would never
forget. Keep up the good work making those Rolls Royce's of ambient subs and be
sure and let us know when you get new pics at your site.
Kindest Regards,
Bill Akins.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 3:27
PM
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] WOW!!! Cool Idea
"was" Sub form as a float ship normal
Bill,
The Proteus carries up to 14 divers on the
outside, fore and aft deck, this is a
unique experience that one diver will
never forget diving WITH the boat , not
FROM the boat, imagine going down
strapped to your seat with a 45 tons boat,
then under the water they leave
the ship to swim around, to return on deck for
resurfacing with the boat.
what a ride, only for experienced divers though.
People from inside the
cabin, not being divers can observe the outboard activity
and talk to the
divers, there is no bubble here, i dont know what the Mr
dave....who is
referring to, the cabin is ambient pressure DRY cabin .
I have been diving
with dry ambient subs for years, taking passengers from 10 to
85 years old.
I dont remember anyone exploding. passengers breath air under
pressure at 2
or 3 atms and there is absolutely no problems with that. divers
do it all
the time.
Buoyancy and depth control is set with VBT's and vertical
thrusters totaling
2,000 kg thrust and 4 dive plans.
propulsion provided
by 2 x jet drives, 1 meter diameter to provide thrust from 0
to 3 knts
under the water, and up to 25 knts surface.
propulsion with diesel engine
and electric drive, hydraulic transmission to the
jet drives, no
shaft.
360 deg retractable scanning sonar, underwater speaker, 30 ft
telescopic masts
with radar, camera persicope, 5 cameras on the hull for
perimeter observation.
2 gensets to recharge the 20 tons of batteries, 2 x
24 CFM custom water cooled
compressor to refill the 24 x 440 CuFt air
cylinders, air analysis monitoring
computer, GPS. underwater doppler
navigation system, TV, DVD, tracphone,
bathroom, air conditionning. are
only a few of the features
All together a beautiful machine. all i know is
that i will have more people
wanting to riding in my sub that in mr dave
...who' s sub that he will never
build anyways.
mr dave...who does
not understand that Marketing is a technique . in marketing
there is
"market", if you dont have a market there is nothing to marketing
regardless of the millions$$ you could put in.
I have a market i got
orders so i provide, my products market themselves.
i am introducing my
Scubajet, a "back pack" diver propulsion vehicle with 2
miniature water
jets, no propellers , hands free, 5 knts, 130lbs of thrust,
carbon fiber
shell.
I am building a test pool facility with the first training submarine
pilot
school. the pool will be completed in 6 months, 45 ft deep, 100 ft
long, air
conditionned, 2 x 30 tons cranes.
I know i am on the other
side of the planet from you guys i do appreciate your
support, i am looking
to organize a sub convention end 2006, if anyone is
interested let me know,
Mr Dave...who dont even think about it, you will not
even pass the
airport.
Herve Jaubert
----- Original Message -----
From:
Akins
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent:
Saturday, June 04, 2005 5:39 PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] WOW!!! Cool
Idea "was" Sub form as a float ship
normal
Herve,
If
you ever bring your ambient sub yachts to the Tampa, Florida area, I would
be
honored if I could be one of the divers riding it on the
outside.
I doubt if you will have to worry about any old blue haired
grandmothers wanting
to ride in the cabin. If you had designed this only as
a passenger tour sub then
you obviously would not have had
positions for divers on the outside and would
have made the enclosed cabin
larger. Even though your ambient subs cannot go
deeper
than normal
scuba divers go, surely these must be the rolls royce's of ambient
subs.
Please keep us informed of your progress with them and thanks for
adding
another aspect
to submarine exploration and
pleasure.
Kindest Regards,
Bill
Akins.
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