Re: subs for checkout instruction

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In a message dated 6/29/99 2:17:50 PM, bartoni2@go.com writes:

<< Dry subs seem so restricted and too complicated to be any fun and very 
dangerous.  Do you live on the beach Vance and what kind of psub do you own 
and where do you use it?  Thanks, Jack  
>>

No sub training centers are left, alas, and down here you had to be a 
customer or an employee, even in the big construction days. That's where I 
got hooked up, at Perry Submarine Builders & Perry Oceanographics--now 
defunct.

You're 100% correct about the relative simplicity of wet subs, although the 
relative dangers are, well .... relative. You can get hurt out there in the 
wet, too. It's easy to stay too long, go too deep, change depths faster than 
your ear can handle, and so on. The dry 1-atm subs protect you from all that. 
And if properly built (and they can be surprisingly simple) they are easy to 
operate and maintain. Either way requires a big committment of time, energy 
and dinero. And either way you can't just "go diving". You go mess with the 
sub--which includes but is not limited to "going diving". It complicates 
things a whole bunch.

I live in coastal Florida, just north of Palm Beach.

Vance