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[Alan James via Personal_Submersibles]

Welcome along John.Thanks for introducing yourself.
I'm from New Zealand so sorry don't quality for the meet up.No you don't have to be an engineer. There is not too much that you can't learn, get a machine shop to do, or get advice from the people in this group about.The Busby book is a great start.My main piece of advice is to share your initial design with the group for their critiquing. These projects can take a long time, so you don't want to waste that time building something that won't work, or that has large design flaws.Also ask a lot of questions as there are some experienced people lurking around. Sometimes they are busy so repeat yourself if you dont get a response. I have travelled to the States a few times to our get togethers ( conferances) & they are a great bunch of guys.All the bestAlan
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  On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 4:13 pm, John Bussard via Personal_Submersibles<personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:   Hi all,

Saying hi and introducing myself as a new poster on the list here.  I live in CA, have zero engineering background, but have gotten hooked looking at all of these projects.  I don’t have the time or space to start a project in the next couple years, which gives me some time to figure out if I can develop the skills to make a go of this, as I’m not much of a project guy at the moment.  

In thinking about how to proceed, I wanted to gain an understanding of how folks go about their respective designs: I’d like to come up with something “of my own” but understand that to have some calculation/measurement skills that are foreign to me.  Is it enough to do some focused reading in Busby to get the ball rolling?  Criteria I think I’m interested in
1) Multi-person (realistically that means 2 I think…)
2) Less interested in depth as opposed to ability to (if possible) be maneuverable, some endurance.  I’m most caught by the R300 as a concept, to frame the discussion.

Those are my thoughts, if there’s anyone near San Diego who has time to talk about their project I’d love to meet y’all, either way I look forward to talking with folks here.

In closing, the first message that came through for me was regarding the death of Phil Nuytten: Sad to learn of it and my thoughts are with friends and family here and throughout- I know what it’s like to lose special group members, and it’s never easy.

Thanks to all,
John Bussard
San Diego, CA
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