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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Remember Karl Stanley?
Speaking of Capt. Nemo, actually Pat Regan, does
anyone know how he's doing? I sent an e-mail to him
about a week ago since he hasn't been posting for a
while. I got no response. I hope he's just terribly
busy becoming rich, famous, and fit and trim.
Dan
--- "D. Blake" <dblake@bright.net> wrote:
> 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
> >
>
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