[PSUBS-MAILIST] Vessel for hire - subs as unique watercraft

[Rick Patton via Personal_Submersibles]

Brian

Did you build your sub to ABS specs and have the inspector come in all the
time to make sure certain guidelines were followed? If you don't charge for
taking someone down then signing a hold harmless agreement would be a must
at the least but from I understand, if you accept money from the public for
a service like that, then that changes things entirely such as having the
boat built to ABS specs if built in the states or NIPPON if built in Japan
etc.
 A friend of mine refurbished a two place trainer jet that he bought from
Chechnya and it was classed as experimental and he took me up several times
and I paid each time for the ride and I had to sign an in depth hold
harmless agreement and he said that the money I paid had to be called a
donation as the plane was classed experimental. I would do this no matter
where you dove, lake quarry etc.
Rick

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:11 AM Brian Hughes via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> Jon,
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> Mark was part of the conversation as was Steve McQueen,  Daniel Lance,
> Alex Smyth and myself.  This was the evening after we had launched Alec’s
> new boat and we started ruminating on what we are doing or plan to do with
> our various subs.
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> In the past Mark worked with the Coast Guard and they basically told him,
> “we don’t know what to do with you so keep it to yourself.”  Because his
> primary mission is lessons, as many of you know, he opted to not be in the
> sub and be able to run everything from the outside.  He has a cam on the
> student, com and can blow the ballast tanks from the surface – remote
> control sub in case something happens.  It’s even easier now that he’s gone
> back to a K250. He also has an ironclad hold harmless document students
> sign.
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> For those of us whose primary usage would be recreational, (or search and
> recovery with me as the sole occupant) what got me asking the question is
> what to do if the occasional opportunity should arise.  What if a research
> expedition arose and there might be an occasion for grant money to take
> scientists below, etc.  Or a weekend driving people around a lake.  As I’ll
> be retired the end of this year and will be spending more time sub’n, these
> are the sorts of things that I ask when smoking a really good cigar and
> sip’n a fine single cask bourbon.
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> Brian
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