RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: The Dry Divers

["Andrew Goldstein" <ag@desertstar.com>]

Just a wild guess....

You can often slide a magnet with a lot less force than is require to pull it directly off...
I once slid a large magnet about 30' on a steel tank until we manged to get a pry bar under it.  
If I remember correctly it could hold two big guys off the ground..

Maybe he managed to slide it off the tanks.

-a


-----Original message-----
From: Phil Nuytten pnuytten@compuserve.com
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:46:09 -0700
To: "INTERNET:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: The Dry Divers

> Re: 'Submaray' . .
> 
>         Submaray was a precursor to the 'Nekton' series. It was designed in
> the 50's and built by Doug Privett (later builder of the Nekton series)for
> Mart Toggweiller who owned a well-known dive charter boat called 'Maray' -
> hence the subs name. Mart operated Maray out of  central L.A. with trips to
> Catalina, and the other nearby islands. Mart was also a well-published
> underwater photographer and the author of 'how to build underwater camera
> cases' (or similar title) - a popular soft-cover how-to booklet on plexi
> housing construction that saw many printings. He also built custom housings
> and sold shaft seal glands, gears, handles, etc., 
>         I remember Mart telling me how 'Submaray' was hired to recover the
> body of a Scuba diver off Catalina - he had no manipulator (this was pre
> Privett 'Billiard ball') so he hit on the idea of attaching a pole with a
> 500lb 'super' magnet on it. He clanked the magnet onto the the victims twin
> tanks . . . blew ballast - and couldn't lift him! Now what? Now the
> punchline is a shaggy dog, 'cause I don't remember how he got out of that
> embarrasing situation.- I mentioned the story to Dick Anderson, years ago
> and he said he thought that a commercial diver had attached a line to the
> sub - but that didn't ring a bell. Any ideas?
> 
> PN
> 
> 
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