The idea is to mount any one of many commercially available mini-cams on a
rotate able ball mount in a watertight housing. This would go on top
of an approx 3" dia deck mounted, 4' tall free flooding, hollow
steel mast. The periscope mast and snorkel would be joined by a welded support
midway up and then guy wired fore and aft to mimic the low frequency
antennae.
The periscope is step mounted and thru bolted with only the wiring leading
in to your LCD screen and rotation control. You could simplify things a
whole bunch with a fixed camera mount if you desire,
and if experience being a good teacher with regard to salt water environments,
may very well end up being the case anyway.
That is as far as I have gone with it, I will get into more detail as to
materials and suppliers when the time comes. For now it's enough to paint the
broad strokes for stuff like this and then paint the fine detail later. This
is a proven concept, Peter Madsen has it aboard Kraka and I believe Freya as
well.
Here are two commercial ambient manufacturers who also use the same
concept.
http://exomos.com/exomos_main_content.html
http://www.caribsub.com/
Incidently, the first company is chaired by a frenchman operating out of
Dubai in the U.A.E., from what I understand, some of the finest unexploited
diving to be found is in that part of the world....too bad it's so
dangerous to travel there!
Joe
From: "Rick and Marcia" <empiricus@telus.net>
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Subject: Re:
[PSUBS-MAILIST] Ambient / 1ATM Q?
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2006 01:59:24
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Joe - could you tell us more about your
periscope ball camera? Thanks
Rick
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