Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Remember Karl Stanley?

["D. Blake" <dblake@bright.net>]

Dan:
I guess the main reason I made that post was to tease the Capt. into
responding.  Obviously no such luck though.  I hope he is OK.  Two months
without a word seems awfully long for Pat though.

Best Wishes,
BigDave
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Rice <brother_dan54@yahoo.com>
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org <personal_submersibles@psubs.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 2:47 PM
Subject: 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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