[PSUBS-MAILIST] New submarine

[Jon Wallace]

Your biggest challenges beyond technical are going to be budgetary for both fabrication and operations.  Whether you can succeed with a 5-ton weight limit for the parameters you have provided will depend upon the design.  Using spheres will get you the most depth for the least amount of displacement but will also make interior design and occupant accommodations more challenging than a cylinder.  For that depth and weight you are looking at a big trailer, big tow vehicle, and big fuel transport budget.  Bionic Guppy is 7-ton so you may want to talk to JimK about any transport issues he's run into.  BG is also designed for ramp use and Jim could provide input with issues related to launch/recovery at a ramp.

I can help you run numbers on the hull calculator if you give me the general diameter that you want to go with.  I think BG is 48 inches and fits two occupants side-by-side in front of large dome and pilot behind them.

Jon



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On Tue, 4/8/14, swaters <swaters at waters-ks.com> wrote:

 Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] New submarine
 To: personal_submersibles at psubs.org
 Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 12:29 AM
 
 I am playing
 with the idea of building another submarine. Here is what I
 am thinking.1) This project needs to be as
 challenging as the same amount of difficulty as it was to
 build my first submarine2) I want to have lots of
 bottom time with my K-350 to learn what needs to be improved
 on in design and ability.3) Learn to use
 CAD 4) Project will take 5-7 years to
 complete
 My initial goals are1) Hold 3
 people2) Weigh 10,500lbs or less3)
 Depth of 3,300 feet (1000m)4) Have a very
 effective range of abilities such as a good manipulator arm
 and tooling5) Have a wide veiwing maybe a acylic
 dome front
 Ok, shoot holes in the ideas. What will be the
 main challenges to overcome? What complications am I not
 considering?
 Thanks,Scott Waters
 
 
 
 
 
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