RE: AUV Scope

[Ray Keefer <Ray.Keefer@eng.Sun.COM>]

> Regarding the 'ammended scope', I think the new wording now includes
> hobbyist radio controlled subs.... i.e. "unmanned subs".
Hi,

> 
> This may be including more than I think you really want to. I personally
> have an R/C sub and am a member of the SubCommittee. Knowing that group
> as I do I think it would be my guess that it is in the best interests of
> PSUBS to not cross over into the R/C hobby world, 


SubCommittee is a group that already handles hobbiest RC submarines.
They do it very well, so I see no point in duplicating their work.

However the lines between a SubCommittee submarine and one of ours may blur a
bit. 

We can go beyond what SubCommittee does. Most of their subs are 
to scale, shallow depth and fresh water based. We don't need to make our
submersibles scale models of anything. The shallow depth doesn't tax
the hull much. The fresh water is needed since the radio wave penetrate
fresh water much better than salt water. Also some RC submarines flood water
inside the hull, fresh water is ok, salt water would start corroding
things.

We can certainly use some of their techniques but our scope is not to
build scale model, hobbiest, fresh water only submarines. 


> as I would think the
> PSUB people would want to maintain a more "professional"
> appearance...???

Certainly more serious.


> 
> Yet, on the other hand, there may eventually be a professional
> application for R/C submarines that we would want to include. If memory


Think of "R/C" as Remote Controlled and not Radio Controlled and we could
indeed talk about them. I always though it would be nice if my first couple 
of deep dives could be done remotely so my life isn't seal inside a new,
untested hull at depth. Paranoia I guess.

Just how to word it in the scope though is the question we need to settle
on.

Regards,
Ray