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

[Ray Keefer <psubs2001@yahoo.com>]

I like the dig at the end of the article:

     Coincidently, the builders of the Titanic said 
     pretty much the same thing.

Have any of you folks ever seen an article about a homemade submersible that the media didn't disparage in their closing remarks? I really doubt the reporter is a fair judge of what is safe or not in submersible design.


--- On Sun, 9/6/09, Brent Hartwig <brenthartwig@hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Brent Hartwig <brenthartwig@hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Chinese home-built sub makes the water
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 12:21 PM
> 
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> 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
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> 
>               " 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 
> 
>   
> Save 
> the whales, collect the whole set. 
>    
> 






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