Pardon the amateur question…
If it was a dry sub, would you have to
raise it every time you dived just to get in? If so, wouldn’t it be just
as practical to have it stored somewhere else?
My sub will have a rig attached to it so
it would take a simple cable to pull it onto a trailer and off you go…
all of this, of course, because mine is going to be a fairly small contraption,
compared to some of the sea faring monsters I’ve seen on this site! :-O
I guess a lot of it has to do with diving
frequencies ? If its just one weekend out of the year for a day or two, I
assume it would be cheaper just to rent a rig and trailer, and tow it out for
the weekend, versus paying a high dock fee or having to leave it laying shivers
on the bottom of the sea for so long.
Also, I wouldn’t park it on the
bottom simply because I wouldn’t want my ship being exposed for that long…
don’t know of any problems, but certainly don’t want to take
chances. And there are a lot of crooks out there, who are willing to screw up
your operation, or just simply flat out raise your boat and ‘salvage’
it to their warehouse for free parts,etc.
Once again, sorry about the amateur nature
of my posting..
-Joey
From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] On Behalf Of Brian Cox
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006
8:59 PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
Sitting High
Note I said
"in a safe area". I'm thinking off of the Summerland
area. It's true we do get some bad storms in the Winter time but
with a cylindrical shape resting on the bottom I would think the worst that could
happen would be it could become partially buried. Would you be willing to
entertain that idea without accepting it?
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, October
24, 2006 18:51
Subject: RE:
[PSUBS-MAILIST] Sitting High
Brian,
Before mooring your boat on the bottom as you suggest, you aught to
check how quickly things are destroyed on the bottom by the powerful storms you
have on the West Coast. I have seen several relatively new wrecks in very
good condition decimated off of the coasts of San Diego
and Santa Barbara
in 75 to 100 fsw.
R/Jay
Respectfully,
Jay K. Jeffries
Andros Is., Bahamas
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
- Aristotle
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org
[mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org]
On Behalf Of Brian Cox
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:29 PM
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Sitting High
Exactly, this is a serious delema. I was just down at
our local Harbor, Ventura CA, and was inquireing about a few things,
namely cost of boat yard space...$3.00/ ft / day !!! also the
overhead crawling crane capacity...165 tons Trying to calculate the
weight of a 50' concrete sub 8' dia . does anyone know the capacity
of those semi trailers?
Once is is in the water it could be kept on the bottom off shore in a
safe area.
Brian