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Peter, I was speaking more of
contingency planning then of unexpected emergencies…as they say, “To
be forewarned is to be forearmed”. If we review all of the potential
issues that we can think of that crop up while operating a sub, then categorize
them as to severity (i.e. harmless through life-threatening), further classify
the potential incidents as to likelihood of occurrence, and finally arrive at a
means to mitigate the most likely and dangerous, we will operate our PSUB in a
much safer manner. Also, after going through this process, we can better early
identify (and potentially avoid) an oncoming incident. You have been (maybe
unknowingly) going about this same process when you were considering how to
avert a surface collision…an incident with a good chance of happening as
compared to others and very severe in nature, even life-threatening thus a lot
of effort should be exerted in mitigating the accident. Your deployable
photonics mast is one potential solution. This same process has been used
in technical diving to make it safer and is regularly used in developing
disaster preparedness plans (hurricanes, flooding, fires, etc.). R/Jay Respectfully, Jay K. Jeffries Andros Is., Bahamas A skimmer
afloat is but a submarine, so poorly built it will not plunge. From:
owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of Peter Madsen Jay
wrote: "It
is my opinion that most PSUBers don’t give enough thought to what
emergencies they might encounter..." I
agree - in the sence that you can newer really be to considered - and excaping
sunken submarines will never be anything any of us can say that we
have done lots of times. When ever I dive I try to remember that this
one could be the big one...and the equipment and experinece on this specific
deployment will determine if we will make it to surface... Regrads, Peter Jeg
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