Jon, A scuba diver could stop the saucer if he was braced on the bottom.
It was good in still water, but not in currents. And, of course, no one else
ever used it, which ought to say something. Vance
-----Original Message-----
From:
jon@psubs.org
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Sent: Thu, 4 Jan 2007
10:35 AM
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] water jet
Yep, that's
what I recall as well. At 1,000 feet you probably don't want to be going
too much faster anyway lest you bump into an unseen obstruction and ruin your
day. The slow speed is probably a virtue when using the sub for research
purposes, however I wonder if in some parts of the world it would be able to
hold its own against a strong current.
Alec, I just looked at Ned Shenton's book to verify this. The
saucer used a 2 hp dc motor to drive the pump and got about one knot out of
it at full speed. Vance