[PSUBS-MAILIST] Test of Euronauts diver lock out chamber

[MerlinSub@t-online.de]

Hi submadmans,

the 2007 crew- metting was used for a deep test of the diver lock-out/lock-in and decompresion chamber.

For this purpose we pump 7.5 ts river water inside the chamber and pressurzied the chamber with air to 32 bars/468 psi - equal to a divedeep of 320 Meter or 1050 feet. The chamber did the job without problems and the three video remote controled gauge indicate that the bending and stress in the bulkheads is inside the tolerance of Andre's FE-computer-model.

On the next day Stefan did a manned "dive" to 80 Meters dephts (260 feet. Down and groundtime 10 Minutes, decompresion overall time 50 minutes.

The chamber will be now sandblast and than paint. Than reinstallation of all the inside equipment and after this full operational.

A small but important step for this submarine project. All crew members a thank you for there help. The next crew-meeting will be about end of the year for the test run of all the machinery room equipment.

best regards Carsten  - pictures later   WWW.euronaut.org