[PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive

[hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles]

Hi Alan,
We took lots of pictures, I am trying to figure out this stupid windows 8.1 :-) I will post them when my wife takes pitty on me and helps me. 
I must say, and I am sure Scott will agree, I will never get over the feeling that depth means nothing in a sub.  One minute your looking at the surface the next your 50 feet down looking at weeds and fish, and it feels the same.  Very neat feeling.
Hank
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On Tue, 5/6/14, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive
 To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 Received: Tuesday, May 6, 2014, 6:53 PM
 
 Well done
 Hank,that's
 submarine no 5 or 6 ??. Look forward to some
 pictures.Alan
       
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 [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive
    
 Today I took Gamma to Premier Lake and did several
 dives.  I reached 50 feet on the second dive and my
 employee took it out for a 20 foot dive.  
 The hatch was leaking on the first dive until I got down to
 20 feet or so.  Never leaked after that.  No other
 leaks at all.
 ACQ's are amazing and clear as a bell.  I hit the
 bottom a bunch of times until I figured it out.  
 The rudder is
  very effective and the sub is quite speedy going forward
 and poor in reverse.  Acceleration is modest but it
 gets going quite well.
 The launch cart worked quite well but was a bit problematic
 because it floats :-) 
 I have a small noise to trace from the magnetic drive
 coupler area.
 All in all a success 
 Hank 
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