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Thanks also to the Group for
the nice words! Thanks for the kind
words on psubs. I appreciate it. I was looking at the wreck photos again
and wondered about visibility from the sub. Can you actually see the side
thrusters from the small ports, and is the aft thruster visible from the dome?
There don't seem to be many nets hung on the garibaldi, but I remembered that
Delta got hung up on the Lusitania. They can jettison the stern section of
their main ballast tank, including the prop and rudder, so freed themselves.
KSS can't do that. It is something to think about as a safety feature for
future subs, and perhaps for retro fit on KSS. >> The pilot has
a real good overview trough the top dome, bow dome and portholes. Under an
angle it is possible to see the side thrusters. For the blind spot at the stern
thruster, a camera can be fitted. Jettison parts (I heard more than one story
that a manipulator got stuck.) is a good point but makes the simple sub more
complicated. To avoid nets/ wreck entanglement:
--we designed clean
lines so that the sub will not easy grab a line. -- we drive it only by
running forward and keep our distance from potential entanglement zones. .The
passengers/observators have an active role in spotting lines and nets! We had one or two small
collisions with the wrecks hull; both vessel ware strong enough ;-)
-----Original
Message----- Hi Vance, Some pictures on a
Croatian news page. You can see the axe bow of the capsized ship! http://www.slobodnadalmacija.hr/Mozaik/tabid/80/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/81450/Default.aspx can be translated by
google. I have a lot of
pic’s but I have to ask because its intellectual property. The main reason for
having battery’s in a separate compatiment is safety. For the Eurosub we
choose good quality AGM battery’s which are unlikely to explode. The 7,2 Kw/h proved
enough for whole day diving. This was without long surface transit. Van: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] Namens vbra676539@aol.com Is the Garibaldi Expedition web page off
line for more sub pics (I hope)? -----Original Message----- Or a keel box or radially bisected pod
open to the hull (sealed inside with a lid) like the old PC-5 or the Nekton
series. That would provide a separate compartment for the batteries but do away
with the leak problem completely. I don't have the engineering expertise to
calculate such a thing, but ABS bought off on those boats, so one must assume
that it can be done. PC-5 has a 20" tube section with one small hatch
forward to pull batteries through (an enormous pain in the butt, according to
the guys who worked on it). The nektons have an aluminum box top, o-ring
sealed that screws down to the projecting edges of the steel box keel, which
exposes the eight batteries from one end to the other (harder to build but
easier to maintain). What do you think, Carsten? A 1.2m X Vance -----Original Message----- Rootssub? Make one central Pod under the pressure hull. If it flood it increase the MG stability and maybe partly compensate the FSEffect.. vbr Carsten <vbra676539@aol.com> schrieb: > > Can't argue with that. > > So, what do I call the first Eurosub built in the US? Immigrantsub? > > Vance > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MerlinSub@t-online.de > To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org > Sent: Sat, Dec 5, 2009 5:52 pm > Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Reserve buoyancy > > > Boats designed without pods have not such problems.. ;-) > vbr carsten > > ************************************************************************ > *********************************************************************** > *********************************************************************** > he personal submersibles mailing list complies with the US Federal > AN-SPAM Act of 2003. Your email address appears in our database > ecause either you, or someone you know, requested you receive messages > rom our organization. > If you want to be removed from this mailing list simply click on the > ink below or send a blank email message to: > removeme-personal_submersibles@psubs.org > Removal of your email address from this mailing list occurs by an > utomated process and should be complete within five minutes of > ur server receiving your request. > PSUBS.ORG > O Box 53 > eare, NH 03281 > 03-529-1100 > *********************************************************************** > *********************************************************************** > *********************************************************************** > > ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ The personal submersibles mailing list complies with the US Federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. Your email address appears in our database because either you, or someone you know, requested you receive messages from our organization. If you want to be removed from this mailing list simply click on the link below or send a blank email message to: removeme-personal_submersibles@psubs.org Removal of your email address from this mailing list occurs by an automated process and should be complete within five minutes of our server receiving your request. PSUBS.ORG PO Box 53 Weare, NH 03281 603-529-1100 ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ Internal Virus Database is out of date. |