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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Caught in weeds...
Just to add a little more worry for everyone :) Some
of the mines deployed in World war II were
magnetically triggered free floating and could have
ended up anywhere. The questions remains though,would
they still explode after all this time? I dont want
to find out.
--- solomon D <solomondees@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I wonder are there any spots where remants of old
> sub
> nets might still be waiting for an unwary psubber?
> If
> I remember correctly some of those nets were made of
> braided stainless steel. Also who is to say some of
> the thousands of anti-submarine mines deployed
> around
> the world are all accounted for.
>
> --- Marie-Andrée et Pierre
> <poulin.carrier@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys!
> >
> > No, I'm not talking about police and drugs. I just
> > want to share a small
> > story of my own...
> >
> > Last time I dived with BIG (it was the second time
> > BIG touched water) I was
> > just off the ramp at about 7 feet deep and moving
> to
> > somewhere where I could
> > get to about 30 feet when I had to go true alot of
> > weed. The weeds were very
> > thin and I was used to that kind of weed. I grew
> up
> > living by a lake in that
> > region. So I just drive into the weed with my
> > "weed-edge" equiped
> > minn-kotas. To be honest, I never though that
> those
> > weeds could cause a
> > problem. So at about half throttle I went into
> them
> > when the boat began to
> > slow down. So I put full throttle but it was still
> > slowing down. Some
> > seconds later, I was not able to move at all. I
> > tried to turn on the spot, I
> > flipper both engines vertical, nothing could make
> me
> > move!
> >
> > Fortunately for me I was diving with 7 divers. So
> in
> > a couple of seconds one
> > of my friend appear in the front window and he
> make
> > a sigh telling me "don't
> > touch the thrusters!" I replied to him ok. and
> > waited. After like 2 or 3
> > minutes he came back and gave me the ok sigh. I
> was
> > now able to move freely
> > again and we continued the dive with-out anymore
> > problems.
> >
> > What I realised that day is that if I had no
> divers
> > with me, I would have
> > been in real trouble! I also realised that the
> total
> > force of the sub is
> > like 60 pounds (thrusters) + ballast lift (about
> > 100pounds). I never ever
> > though that those small weeds cough entangle me! I
> > will have to be more
> > carefull with those weeds. I also remembered that
> > somebody said that
> > entanglement was one of the most dangerous problem
> > with a psub.
> >
> > So, that's my 2 cents worth of sub diving
> experience
> > :)
> >
> > Pierre "weed-man" Poulin
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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