Peter,An impact with a surface contact while surfacing or proceeding to a shallow depth such as periscope depth is a very real danger for a submarine and would be concidered as the most hazardous proceedure. The crew of the U.S.S. Greenling skipped various saftey checks and we all know the end result. A gent from California will be bringing to this years convention a passive sonar system how-to instructional guide that I have been developing for some time. In short, Once the audio listening level is set to a good level on this thing, You simply turn a small handwheel to point in the desired listening direction and listen. Simple! The hydrophones are stationary in a small array outside of the preasure hull and the selection as to which one is being listened to is done within a hydrophone selector unit inside the sub. It uses a fraction of the power consumed by an active depth sounder and is seperate from the power for any other onboard system. (A hydrophone placed atop a rotating mast work well, but movement of the mast will surely interfier with your reception. Turn then listen...turn then listen...) Give this information a good look when it affords itself and perhaps it will be worth your while.
From: "Peter Madsen" <peter@submarines.dk> Reply-To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Collition with surface vessel Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:27:47 +0200 Hi Psubbers,When people talk of submarine safety the situation most often assumed is a sub in distress on the seabed. This is of cause a very critical situation, and we all design boats that are redundant in many ways so that we hopefully never get in that situation.In my practical experience - however - getting hit by a passing surface vessel when being at or very close to surface is a much more likely incident. Depending on the speed and size of the vessel and submarine any level of damage is possible - and the sub I likely to sink with its pressurehull ruptured to some extent after the collision.We are currently adding hydrophones to Kraka for detection and classification of surface sound contacts, and we are designing a cable camera for the UC3 - that can be send up prior to surfacing. We hope these technical gadgets may make it more safe to operate our subs.The professionel submariners ( navy ) that I have talked to say that they solely depend on their passive sensors - hydrophone arrays - and they have zero way of detecting a drifting - stopped or sailing vessel.What do other non navy submarine operator do - how do you psubbers handle this safety issue ? Most people ask me why we don't just have an underwater radar ?! - or is it sonar - a sea surface hull detection device...like the navy...Well - what do you do ? Regards, Peter Madsen -- Jeg beskyttes af den gratis SPAMfighter til privatbrugere. Den har indtil videre sparet mig for at få 13970 spam-mails. Betalende brugere får ikke denne besked i deres e-mails. Hent gratis SPAMfighter her: http://www.spamfighter.com/lda
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