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