[PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive

Wed May 7 21:22:22 EDT 2014

Congrats Hank! I can’t wait for my special day to come. Lets see some pictures.

Rick

From: Joe Perkel via Personal_Submersibles 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 6:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Gamma first dive

      Yes, quite historic! Yours is a boat featured in the Busby text.

      Congratulation, well done, and may you enjoy many adventures!

      Joe

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Sent: Wed, May 7, 2014 12:48:33 PM 

      Hi Hank,
      Congratulations on Gamma's first dive in a long time.  Lots of folks will be eager to see pictures of such an historic event and hear the tale.
      Jim

      In a message dated 5/6/2014 6:11:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, personal_submersibles at psubs.org writes:
        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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