Kyle,
What a great invite! I wish I could join the two of you at this but I'm tied down with life at the moment.
David, I'm David Bartsch the "David" who's communications system he is soon to go play with. Kyle has a wonderful sub and has helped me more than I can say in seeing this better produced to be of help to these small submarine captains.
Take the time and join him as He is good people and knows his stuff...and welcome to the group!
David Bartsch
From: edlunddds@comcast.net
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Introduction to the PSUBS group
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:52:52 -0500
David,
Glad to see you are close by . I am in Woodbury and will be testing David's comms system in the near future. I will give you a heads up if you want to check out the sub and have a beer so we can figure out what we are going to do with all your skills.
Kyle
Hello all,
I figured I might as well introduce myself, as I have been reading the group emails for a few months and learning a lot. My name is David Hoffman, I live near St. Paul, MN and I am a recent graduate in mechanical engineering from the university of minnesota. I have a huge range of interests in science and engineering ranging from evolutionary biology to cosmology to jet turbines. My focus in education is on thermodynamics, particularly computational thermodynamics, heat transfer and combustion. I know my way around the shop and am a pretty good welder, machinist and fabricator.
I don't know what got me started on my interest in submarines but it seems to have started with reading a wikipedia article on the mid-ocean ridge in the Atlantic. I think that might have gotten me onto Robert Ballard and the sinking of the Thresher and Scorpion. Anyway, after doing a lot of reading I am considering a career in oceanography or deep water work. I am still trying to figure out exactly where I want to take my career, whether I should go to dive school or go for an advanced degree in oceanography or get a desk job. If anyone here has any advise I would love to hear it. I likely won't be building my own sub any time soon but I am still interested in the goings-on of the community.
I am pretty impressed with most of the discussion and projects being built by the group, and hope that I can be of help through my thermodynamics education and fabrication experience. You guys have some elegant ways to solve complex problems that I had no idea even existed prior to reading about them here.
David Hoffman
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