[PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project

[Alec Smyth via Personal_Submersibles]

Sounds good, tiny and light is a major plus - particularly as you have a
boat that can get you to a dive site and over the side.

Alec

On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 11:12 PM, hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

>
> Alec,
> I am not thinking flyer at all.  The water clarity would not support the
> speed.  I am thinking of a simple tiny light sub that can launch anywhere
> even off the deck of my boat.  It is just a though right now.
>
> For now I am enjoying my what seems gigantic bow dome.  The visibility is
> unbelievable, the modification cost and effort has been well worth it.  As
> a bonus, my payload is back to 500 lbs plus.  I had to fill the sub with
> steel plates to get it to sink.  :-)
> Hank  --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 5/24/15, Private via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>  Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] new sub project
>  To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  Received: Sunday, May 24, 2015, 10:38 PM
>
>  Indeed! Except mine went
>  vertical only for emergency exit rather than as standard
>  procedure.  It was not going to have any freeboard to speak
>  of in vertical mode, so you would climb out in a hurry and
>  watch her sink from under you. The method of going vertical
>  was dropping the emergency weight, which was located at the
>  very front. More than the front actually, it stuck out and
>  constituted your crash bar. The sub was a "flyer",
>  a poor man's Deep Flight. I had her 90% complete when I
>  bought Snoopy, and the flyer project sat untouched for many
>  years while Snoopy took up all my time and served as a
>  classroom. The sub I'm finally finishing up now recycles
>  the flyer hull, but redone to be conventional. Well,
>  conventional in the sense of having ballast tanks and a
>  conning tower - she's actually a pretty bizarre beast as
>  the folks who come to the convention will see! My conclusion
>  was that a flyer must be great fun but requires both
>  unusually clear water and a vessel capable of laun!
>   ching the sub at the dive site. If I owned a
>  mega yacht and cruised the Galapagos, a flyer would be just
>  the thing. But what I'm aiming for now is radical
>  simplicity, whereas the old one was all touch screens,
>  servos, PLCs, and such.
>
>  Best,
>
>  Alec
>
>
>
>  > On May 24, 2015, at 7:31 PM, Jon Wallace
>  via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>  wrote:
>  >
>  >
>  > Talk to Alec, he was building such a
>  design years ago before he acquired SNOOPY and ultimately
>  decided against it...but I don't recall why.
>  >
>  >
>  >> On 5/24/2015 6:31 PM, hank pronk via
>  Personal_Submersibles wrote:
>  >> Yes,
>  you float it to the dock side, then tip it vertical to get
>  in, close the hatch, tip it horizontal, and your away.
>  Saves building a CT that my 200lb sexy frame can fit into
>  :-)
>  >>
>  Hank--------------------------------------------
>  >
>  >
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