Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Chinese home-built sub makes the water

[MerlinSub@t-online.de]

And the tiers look not that way that they carry 400 Kg each.. 

vbr Carsten


"Alan James" <alanjames@xtra.co.nz> schrieb:
> Hi Brent,
> Just did some homework on "Chinese death trap". 
> The article says its 1.6 tonnes & calculating out the displacement of 7 drums thats about right.
> Wich means the drums must be his pressure hull & not an outer ballast tank.
> He says he can go to 30ft, but a thick 1.2mm drum has a crush depth of 16ft. If he reinforced all
> the drums half way that would only give him 33ft. Might be wrong, he might be an ardent follower of psubs.org.
> & have built it to ABS standards.
> Alan.
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Brent Hartwig 
>   To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org 
>   Sent: Monday, September 07, 2009 7:21 AM
>   Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Chinese home-built sub makes the water
> 
> 
>   Looks to me, like Xiangli has about the same hatch land height as my original K boat.  I've have to ship him some amas. ;}'
> 
>   http://ralph.ninemsn.com.au/stuff/newstous/598774/chinese-man-builds-7m-home-made-submarine
> 
> 
>                 " The truth may set you free but first its going to piss you off. "           ~ attributed to Gloria Steinem
> 
> 
>   Getter Dun,
>   Szybowski
> 
> 
>     Save the Nuts, Collect the whole set
> 
> 
>   From: Jay K. Jeffries 
>   Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2009 6:16 AM
>   To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org 
>   Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Chinese death trap
> 
> 
>   Here is another image of the Chinese death trap sub.  Looks like he is working on his TV periscope, the mast seems to be made of a piece of clear acrylic pipe.  Note the red line on the front of the sail, I am guessing that this is his trim line.  As I stated earlier, he is operating with very little freeboard.
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>   http://www.uniquedaily.com/amateur-inventors-homemade-submarine/ 
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>   R/Jay
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>   Resepectfully,
> 
>   Jay K. Jeffries
> 
>   Andros Is., Bahamas
> 
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> 
>   Save the whales, collect the whole set.
> 
>    
> 




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