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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange

I really don't remember how that thing worked. It belonged to the divers. Once the sub was back, they took over, mating the bell to insure their people's safety. Aside from overseeing my mating surfaces on the transfer trunk, I just never fooled with it.
Vance


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From: Brent Hartwig <brenthartwig@hotmail.com>
To: PSUBSorg <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 6:17 pm
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange



See Vance, that's what I get for not reading all the posting on a particular thread before replying.  ;}   So then those rings are part of the bellows?  How are the bellows configured?  Is there just a thick rubber impregnated nylon mesh sleeve inside those rings?

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Cheers,
Szybowski




To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 17:17:31 -0500
From: vbra676539@aol.com

Brent,
I stand corrected. The trunk DID move up and down, as well as the sub, so we could do it whichever way we had to. I'd forgotten that. By the way, the fellow just to the left of PC1202 in the foreground is Jean Francois Durand, the man we called Chief, or Top Frog, who owned the company and was loved by all. We were insanely loyal to him. The fellow to the right with the gigantic mustache is Gib Blevins, who went on to become a top sat diver, and then took PC-1201 to Guam (I think) to operate for tourism. I wonder whatever happened to him? He was a great guy. One hopes that he still is.
Vance


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From: Brent Hartwig <brenthartwig@hotmail.com>
To: PSUBSorg <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 3:11 pm
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange



Vance, I would of loved to of been there.   It looks like the thru-deck trunk can go up and down, so there must be a pressure proof expandable sleeve of some sort? I'm thinking the outer part of it includes those rings in the lower area?  I would love to see the drawing of that assembly. Who might have those?

Szybowski




To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 08:24:21 -0500
From: vbra676539@aol.com

That's the thru-deck trunk on the old Sea Diver, nee Intersub 2. It was purpose built for one sub (PC1202/DLO) and had a stand-up dual chamber sat system under the decks and a quarter million cubic feet of gas in rocket bottles. Later, we used two larger ships for DLS services with the same sort of underdeck (Perry-built) system and two submarines each (usually a PC-18 and a PC-12). It was quite an operation. I was actually there the day the Nick shot those pictures, but only made it to the cutting room floor, I'm afraid. The photo was taken in a Bremerhaven shipyard, near Carsten's neck of the woods. I was just to Nick's left (starboard side) in the mechanic's shop, getting gear together for 1202, which I'd helped build at Perry (that's it in the background).
Vance


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From: Brent Hartwig <brenthartwig@hotmail.com>
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Sent: Sun, 1 Mar 2009 12:31 am
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange



Jay,

The clamping device in the picture linked below on a Intersub support ship looks like it might be the type your talking about.  I suspect Vance has used that one.







Regards,
Szybowski




From: bottomgun@mindspring.com
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:24:36 -0500

Brent,
The two-part coupling flange is common in the oil patch for mating diving bells with decompression facilities for crew transfer.  The small portable chambers depicted in the DART brochure are used by US Navy diving detachments during remote ops.
R/Jay
 
Respectfully,
Jay K. Jeffries
Andros Is., Bahamas
 
As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.
    -Josh Billings
 
 
 
From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of Brent Hartwig
Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 4:13 PM
To: PSUBSorg
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] STANAG NATO standard flange
 


I found this set of decompression units from a manufacturer in the Netherlands, that are using the STANAG NATO standard flange.  The main unit has a interesting pressure hull design.  It looks like they are using a different locking means for there add on unit, in a clam shell arrangement. I'll need a at least two STANAG flanges on my live aboard sub.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Regards,
Szybowski




> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] NATO standard flange
> From: MerlinSub@t-online.de
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:53:00 +0000
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>
> http://www.simsi.org/Soci/Documenti/AQA00311.pdf
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> Page 25ff. vbr Carsten
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>
> "Sean T. Stevenson" <cast55@telus.net> schrieb:
>> Based on a brief internet search, I understand that there is a NATO
>> standard arrangement for the interconnection of hyperbaric transport
>> chambers, personnel transfer capsules and similar arrangements designed
>> for transfer under pressure. A number of hyperbaric system
>> manufacturers quote inclusion of this flange in their literature, but I
>> am having difficulty sourcing the actual description. Does anyone know
>> where details about this NATO standard bayonet flange can be found?
>>
>>
>> -Sean
>>
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