RE: wet vs dry - LETS DROP IT

["asmyth" <asmyth@hsomail.com>]

Maybe I'm over-reacting, but I think we've wasted enouth energy on the
intellectual property issue to come up with a brand new one now. Fortunately
this thread is much milder, but it seems headed in a dangerous direction (I
am referring to the tone, which is hard to judge in email).

Of course a wet sub is better for one person and a wet sub for another,
there's no need to argue over the merits of the choice. Lets just drop it,
and concentrate on making the damned things work, whether wet or dry.

I don't mean to censor or offend anyone else, but I'm going to censor MYSELF
by making this my first and last debate-related post.

-Alec

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org]On Behalf Of j barton
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 11:57 AM
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
> Subject: wet vs dry
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> Hi, Yours was a good 2 cents, Al Secor, and I appreciate your
> answer.  I like the idea of shallow diving and not the 900 ft
> dives you do in your Perry 3 man sub.  With your $20,000 side
> scanning sonar and your own Perry, you are way out of my league,
> experience wise and money wise.  But remember, the Perry sub you
> own is professionally built, tested and certified.  And your
> e-mail address of "wrkdiver" (either workdiver or wreckdiver)
> shows us all that you are a professional with all the
> certifications and super deep submarine dives in your log.
>
> I only have a scuba license and would like to be able to sit a 2
> man wet sub on the bottom (my max dive, less than 100 ft.) and
> for the most part, to stay off the dive decompression tables so
> not to invite getting bent.  Just being 20 feet down over a 30 ft
> coral reef cruising or "flying" like a big manta ray at 2 to 3
> knots for a couple of miles then stop and set it on the sandy
> patch at 30 ft, get out with your certified dive buddy and take
> some closeup pictures or nab a couple of nice red snapper with my
> co2 spear for dinner with your families, reboard, raise slowly
> off the bottom and make a surface run to shore would be fantastic.
>
> No way could two of us do that "dream" psub trip in a dry sub
> (surface dive boat tender and crew) with little wet fogged
> portholes, stuck and leaking "o" rings and other seals, internal
> gasses, uncontrolled dives when your tanks don't blow and your
> emergency drop ballast doesn't drop! You roll end over end down
> the reef and land upside down and the co2 scrubbers get
> saturated, batteries leak through the drilled holes and the like.
>  Just my opinion and my 2 cents too.  Al, between the two of us,
> were  "making cents".  How do you pick up stuff off the bottom
> with your sub?  Thanks,  Jack
>
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