[PSUBS-MAILIST] Pisces

Mon Jan 5 17:42:54 EST 2015

Thank you for the info. I will be surr to tread very lightly. Doubtful buying a old Pisces is even possable, but I'll try. If nothing else I will keep moving forward designing and building a deep diver.
Thanks,
Scott Waters

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From: Hugh Fulton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
Date:01/05/2015  4:24 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Pisces 

Scott,
I bought the Comsub off Silvercrest and got done.  Also heard of a couple of others who had unhappy dealings with them.
They are showing Comsub as on their sales page without any contact with me.  Basically they are a one man & wife team with extravagant claims on the Website.
Read Vance’s 2nd sentence and remember it.  Hugh

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Anything is possible, Scott. SIlvercrest will skin you alive, given half an opportunity. Or at least they'll try. You have to be willing to wrangle with them. I don't think they'll respect anyone who doesn't. Maybe Phil has an extra one laying around. I've never asked. You could do a lot worse, if the hulls are salvageable. There are four pressure vessels (except on Leo). The personnel sphere, an aft floatation sphere, and the two 32" forward VBTs (that's what is under the fiberglas brow that makes the P boats so distinctive. And the boats weigh from ten to twelve tons, depending. Just in case you want to check your air-ride flatbeds for load capability. The P-VI was the most perfect hull Hyco ever did--it was fabricated in Jacques Piccard's shop in Switzerland under contract, and was lap finished, as I understand it--both inside and out. Lovely thing, P-VI. I remember her well. Maybe it could be had, if IUC hasn't rolled it out into a dumpster. That might be another question for our Dr. Phil, as I have zero contacts up that way anymore. Keep me in mind. I'll happily spin a wrench for you anytime on one of those.
Vance

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Excellent info Vance! Thank you so much. I was hopeing to locate one and maybe do a major overhaul / restoration on one rather than try to build a 1000m boat from scratch. Any more pointers would be awesome. 
Thanks,
Scott Waters

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Date:01/05/2015 3:02 PM (GMT-06:00) 
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Pisces 

P-I       Scrapped out by Vickers
P-II      Rumored to be in a Miami storage unit (unconfirmed)
P-III ?
P-IV In Hawaii and in service (but stony broke, I hear)
P-V     Ditto
P-VI    IUC warehouse in New York, maybe parted out
P-VII In a Russian museum (Sevastopol, I think)
P-VIII Nuytco
P-IX    Design study for Intersub (4K meters, never built)
P-X     Nuytco
P-X11 Same as VII (flanking the front doors, last I saw)

Plus Leo, which was a big-window Pisces style rated to 2000' which, along with P-VI and Aquarius, are the only Hyco boats that I qualified on and operated (although the P-VI experience was not a good one for me or the owners, either one). I did participate in a Pisces V overhaul in Houston, but I'm not sure that counts except for the busted knuckles.

I think the boys at Silvercrest might have one of the question marks, but I'm not sure. Assuming they do, that leaves one unaccounted for. I'm betting Mr. Dr. Prof. Nuytten would know. As a side note, if you look at the Mirs, you will see where they sprang from. They are Pisces boats on steroids. Those people worked at IUC for a couple of years and operated P-VII and P-XII for years after that, then took all those dandy ideas, added a pile of rubles, and built a couple of big brawny kissing cousins. Mir 1 & Mir 2, by name. The Pisces subs were pretty good for the day, but maintenance heavy. And rest assured, you haven't really lived until you have pulled a Pisces battery box at sea to change one cell. What a job!!!

Vance

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From: Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
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Sent: Mon, Jan 5, 2015 3:02 pm
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Scott,
Hawaii undersea research lab on Oahu has two subs.
One I know is a Pisces & I believe the other is also.
I think David Columbo has seen them in the last year,
he might confirm.
They told me they were losing funding for operating them
as Govt considered rovs were better value for money.
Alan

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Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Pisces

Does anyone know what happened to all the Pisces submarines? I believe there was 10 built, but only one or two that are still in operation. I think NOAA has one.

Thanks,
Scott Waters

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