Re: support vessels

[Tim (Doc) Williams <doc@caffeina.com>]

WARNING - Hi I am new to the list and to subs.....-END WARNING

I would think that the ballast tanks on the psub and the main host could be
balanced so that its launch did not effect the host.
Would it really be all that difficult to attach a temp passageway via the 
emergency escape hatch? I would think that such a ugly(but usable) setup
could be rigged up fairly quickly.
	It is interesting to note that in Canada your scrap subs would be our
state of the art navy equipment...sigh.

Doc

 On Tue, 09 Nov 1999, you wrote:
> Yeah, I imagine a huge ambient deck on each side of the the sub used as
> lockouts with doors large enough to launch 2-man psubs.  What about ballast
> with all that air space?  Mercury?
> Big Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 11:42 AM
> Subject: Re: support vessels
> 
> 
> >I forgot to add, on the "taxpayers getting our money's worth" side, that
> I'd prefer we got some *use* out of these things we've spent so much on
> already -- instead of scrapping them, or letting them rust. So much value
> has been concentrated in creating these amazing machines -- what a waste to
> lose it.
> >
> >--
> >David
> >buchner@wcta.net
> >Osage MN USA
> >http://customer.wcta.net/buchner
> >
> >