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From looking at the pictures, the Submaray and Nekton both appear to have fully enclosed soft ballast tanks. This would stop the 'burping' experienced by the K-250, and might give it better handling characteristics. But by golly, seeing such a fast towing speed really brightened my day. regards, Shin To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: The Dry Divers Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:49:53 -0400 From: vbra676539@aol.com Joe, It's Submaray, built by Doug Privitt and sold to Mark Toggwieler (pre-Nekton Alpha). It ain't risky. They towed like that for hundreds of miles (all told). And the Nektons got dragged around the same way, at 10 KNOTS!!! It worked liked the proverbial champ. Don't know about Delta with the big forward MBT port, but its angled down, so I suspect the reason was to keep it reasonably towable. Vance -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Perkel <joeperkel@hotmail.com> To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Sent: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:09 am Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: The Dry Divers
A late 60's early 70's vintage film?
looks like one of the Nekton boats, perhaps Vance can identify? Interesting, looks risky but there it is! Joe From: jonw@psubs.org To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: The Dry Divers Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:53:58 -0400 Hello,
I've put short clips of a boat towing the submersible "submaray" (about the same size as a K-350) on the website. These clips are segments of the film "The Dry Divers" which was supplied by Dan Lance at the 2008 convention. The direct links to youtube are included here as well. The entire video is just over 11 minutes in length so I don't know if I'll be able to upload it to YouTube.
PSUBS website
1) Go to www.psubs.org
2) Click on "Community Links"
3) Click on "Video Links"
Towing at low speeds
Towing at high speeds
Jon
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