Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Remember Karl Stanley?

["John Pier" <caribsub@coqui.net>]

wow, 16 valves !!!!  ???????
keep in mind that undersea voyage should be to enjoy the marvels of the
underwater world not to perform mathematics, physics or complicated
plumbing. We might be engineer here but poesy should be served at last.
Herve Jaubert

----- Original Message -----
From: D. Blake <dblake@bright.net>
To: <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 1:55 AM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Remember Karl Stanley?


> Mike and All:
>
> Stanley and Capt. Nemo must be the same person or else they must have a
> little in common.
> Check out this "Deep Blue" excerpt, and a past post by Nemo:
>
> "Nonetheless, he controls the yaw, pitch and roll of his sub by moving air
> in and out of six ballast tanks through 18 different valves. He came up
with
> his design after inspecting about 20 other submarines. Stanley has dubbed
> his
> sub the "C-Bug," which is short for "Controlled Buoyancy Underwater
Glider."
>
>     From: "Captain Nemo" <vulcania@interpac.net>
>     Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:15:22 -0000
>     References: <8c.11f1332.25def6f1@aol.com>
>
> ...The pressure hull for my NAUTILUS MINISUB is a machine-formed steel
> teardrop-spindle shaped vessel with an appended  naviform cabin structure
> and streamlined canopy.  Around, about, and upon this pressure hull is an
> outer hull which replicates the Disney NAUTILUS.  This replica hull also
> encorporates four integral ballast tanks (to simplify this discussion, say
> they are generally rectangular in shape) which sit upon the outside of the
> pressure hull like "saddle tanks".  Each of these tanks is vented and
valved
> at it's extremities, top and bottom, fore and aft: two top vents and two
> bottom valves per tank; sixteen in all.  They all tie in to a central
> plumbing system, and are also connected to a source of high pressure air.
> Thus, no matter what angle the sub may sit at, by closing all but the
> valve(s) at the lowest point and introducing air, I can blow any of the
four
> tanks clear.
> ...And that's how the "hydrobatic" ballast system on my NAUTILUS MINISUB
> works:
> no matter what angle it gets into, including 90 degrees up or down, and/or
> completely inverted; I can still set the valves to blow the tanks dry, and
> regain a level attitude.
>
> Take your pick!  "C-BUG" (Controlled Bouyancy Underwater Glider) system,
or
> "Hydrobatic" ballast system.
> I wionder how a person is able to manually control "eighteen" or "sixteen"
> valves and
> still enjoy the surroundings?  Extreme manual dexterity?  Operating a
> backhoe comes
> to mind.  Anyway, it does present to the imagination a comical picture.
>
> Q-"Tell me, how was your dive?"
> A-"Uhh, busy....real busy!"
>
> Q-"Did you happen to see any curious forms of aquatic life down there?"
> A-"Hey...Sherlock!  You writing a book or what?  Leave this part out and
> call it a mystery alright?"
>
> LOL,
> BigDave
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael B. Holt <mholt@richmond.edu>
> To: PSUBS List <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
> Date: Friday, February 16, 2001 4:38 PM
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Remember Karl Stanley?
>
>
> >As of 1999 he was still diving.  Article I just found:
> >
> >http://www.deeperblue.net/content/1999/scuba/submarine/1.shtml
> >
>
>
>