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RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Caught in weeds...
Yes but subs dive deeper than divers can go.So what do
you do if you get entagled in very deep waters?
--- Alec Smyth <Alec.Smyth@compuware.com> wrote:
> Hello Pierre,
>
> Similar experience here! I submerged and motored off
> along the bottom. All of a sudden the sub started
> going in unexpected directions when I'd hit the
> thrusters. It turned out I was trailing a short
> length of tow rope which managed to entangle itself
> in the tow boat's anchor line. It's the sort of
> thing you could never accomplish if you were trying
> to do it on purpose, the two ropes basically tied
> themselves into a firm knot when one dragged over
> the other. I never saw either rope from inside the
> sub, but did realize there was some sort of
> entanglement going on and called down the support
> diver, who cut me free in a moment. This to me was a
> good example of the usefulness of sub-to-surface
> communications.
>
> Rgds,
>
> Alec
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marie-Andrée et Pierre
> [mailto:poulin.carrier@videotron.ca]
> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:11 AM
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Caught in weeds...
>
>
> 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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