[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive Report

Tue May 12 21:56:36 EDT 2015

Hugh,
It is a humminbird 898c. There is alot of things I had to do to get it right
*Isolated ground with absalutely no noise
*Sheild the data wire from magnetic feilds with that foil stuff
*Figure out the wireing they use. Basically is is 5 prongs with 7 wires and two of the wires are back ups
*Programing of the sonar to read out the best which took alot of messing with the settings. The factory settings do not produce the best image
*Potting the GPS antenna

That is all I can think of at this moment. If you get one I will do my best to explain it over the phone. 
Thanks,
Scott Waters

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From: Hugh Fulton via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
Date:05/12/2015  8:45 PM  (GMT-06:00) 
To: 'Personal Submersibles General Discussion' <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
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Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive Report 

Hi Scott, Sounds great.  What is your sonar system and what were the bugs you talked about. 
Hugh

From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces at psubs.org] On Behalf Of Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles
Sent: Tuesday, 12 May 2015 10:20 a.m.
To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive Report

I think maybe Scott means relative to the more limited freeboard on a K250! Hey Scott, thanks for the report and its great to hear Trustworthy is all set. Pretty much the same here, I've just got a couple of totally minor things to do but Snoopy's essentially ready for the trip already. For those of you not aware, we are planning a joint two-sub trip to Seneca Lake in the first week of June, in collaboration with the local underwater preservation association. They are most generously providing lodging on waterfront property, surface support, and most importantly local knowledge and a list of proposed dives. I'm hoping we can make a "wrecks of Seneca" video. It should be a blast, and we hope to have an update/video for the convention as its just a few weeks after the trip.

Best,

Alec

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:11 PM, via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
For those of you that don't have me on face book, I figured I would post a dive report from yesterdays dive.

I took Trustworthy out to a local lake that normally has no visibility to test her new lights and other modifications and additions. It was a near flawless dive with the acceptation of the chop and the wind that was terrible and made the loading on the trailer a little difficult. We did a series of three dives with the first one being about 30 minutes, the second one being about a hour and the third one was about 30 minutes. The water was the clearest I have ever seen in Milford lake with a visibility of about 5-6 feet. The sonar works flawlessly now (after tons of working out bugs for the last 2 years) and was beyond what I expected!!! We passed a mudding truck tire and I kid you not, I could see the tread of the tire through the sonar!!! My new 10,000 lumen headlight and four 2,000 lumen flood lights worked extremely well and could be seen from the surface even at 30 feet of depth with a eerie glow. My piloting skills even improved with being able to glide just inches above the bottom with only bumping into a few things. I tested the OTS system to about 500 feet away from the surface support and worked well with a little more back noise than I would like, but I think some adjustment to the squelch should improve that. The waves out in the cove were choppy and about 2-3 foot waves, but Trustworthy did quite well with them. I got to say, the tall con makes a huge difference. I thought I would share with you all the awesome dive we had and we are officially ready to go to New York!!!

Thanks,
Scott Waters    

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