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Re: support vessels
This plan wouldn't address the recovery of large amounts of debris and body
parts. You need a large surface vessel with the capability of the Grapple.
Also for those large diver platforms feeding air and power down the lines, you
need the surface ship. About all it would really help would be getting the
"black boxes" back a little sooner.
I love the enthusiasm in this group though, "If it's subs, Let's Do It!" seems
to be the approach. I just hope the budget committee for the Navy is less apt
to spend our tax dollars on maintaining a fully operational sub just to go down
rarely to recover a couple of "black boxes", at least let's hope it's rarely.
It's been too often lately.
Dan
Tim Stolar <stolarsubcorp@yahoo.com> on 11/08/99 10:17:53 AM
Please respond to personal_submersibles@psubs.org
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
cc: (bcc: Dan J. Rice/EST/Sherwin-Williams)
Subject: Re: support vessels
I agree.. I just don't understand why the Navy doesn't
at least convert one of their old LA boats into
something like this, or possibly even an old diesel
boat. Heck, they love to dismantle them so much, so
what the hey. But, even so, they could still use an
existing boat. That is a very good idea you came up
with David.
Best Always,
Tim Stolar
--- David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net> wrote:
> I've been hearing bits of the news about this latest
> downed-at-sea airliner, and the salvage efforts.
> It's supposed to be in like 250 feet of water, and
> they keep having to delay because of the weather.
> I'm guessing this is due to the requirements of the
> surface vessels rather than the zubmersibles. There
> are the ships from which they operate the ROV, and
> the ones dragging sonar instruments, and so on.
>
> It occurred to me that it would be useful for people
> conducting this kind of operation to be able to run
> the whole thing underwater, and ignore the surface
> conditions altogether. Wouldn't it be great to have
> undewater operations, including this kind but also
> research and exploration ones, supported by really
> big submarines? A navy nuclear sub has all those
> torpedo and missile-launcher tubes which could
> launch smaller vessels -- all kinds of sensing
> equipment -- communications -- the ability to hang
> around underwater a really long time. Why don't they
> do this? This isn't really a P-Subs issue, as few of
> us have that kind of money, but hey.
>
> --
> David
> buchner@wcta.net
> Osage MN USA
> http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
>
>
>
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