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Hi Luke, welcome along.
I'm in NewZealand & have been on this site for
2 years now.
I'm building a small 1 person sub to my own
design.
I'd thoroughly recommend taking up Scotts offer
& going &
seeing what he's up to. Probably a couple of hours
talking
to Scott would save you months of work & give
you a good
idea of what's ahead & the rough costs
involved.
All the best
Alan
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Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 2:59
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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New to the
site.
Hello all!
I recently stumbled upon this wealth of information Web site and
was blown away by everything. My name is Luke and I'm from St. Louis, Mo and
have been wanting to build my own personal submersible for years. But I have
only gone as far as moving around a pencil trying to draw what I roughly have
in mind. I recently graduated college from Lindenwood University with a
Business Admin degree. I am very mechanical and have taken apart and rebuilt
almost everything in mine and my folks garages, but I don't have the
engineering training and background that most of you all have. That is my
purpose for presenting my ideas and having you all pick them
apart.
I'd like to build myself a two man submersible for
exploration of lake bottoms in my general area (St. Louis). I am mostly
interested in Table Rock Lake near Branson, MO which has a maximum depth of
220 feet according to one source, though I believe it to be deeper, maybe 350
ft. Therefore I'd like to build a sub capable of withstanding pressure up to
400-500 feet deep, so I'm safe at less depth. I'd like it to have a large
front porthole for navigation and viewing purposes with a mechanical arm so I
can grab items from the bottom. I've thought that the best design for this
would be one with two cots/mats/? for the navigator/passenger to lay down on
facing the front porthole and be able to control the sub from
there.
Any help is much appreciated and hopefully one day I will
have some pictures to post up here for you all to see. Thank you in
advance.
Is there anyone on this mailing list that lives in
the vicinity of St. Louis?
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