[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.

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Hi James,
Disappointing I'm sure, but all part of the educational  process.  No day 
is a failure if you learn something new.  That's  still one beautiful boat.
Jim
 
 
In a message dated 7/6/2015 4:04:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
personal_submersibles at psubs.org writes:

Hi All,
 
 
I had a failure of a day on Sat.  I put the  boat in, and it had a leak.  
Not into the pressure hull, so it  wasn’t a complete failure, but the leak 
was from the forward main tank.   The nearly useless windows that I put on the 
forward tank were leaking  air.  Not just a little bit which I could have 
put up with it, but  loads.  The boat was diving quicker than venting 
normally.    
I pulled it out and went around tightening them up.  Put it  back in and it 
didn't make any difference. 
It was strange as they have been perfectly ok before.  I  think the problem 
is that on Friday while I was prepping the boat for diving,  I went around 
and tightened the bolts.  It must have broken the  seals.   
Anyway.  I could have possibly winged it by running with a reduced main  
ballast, but as I was heading into the open sea, I thought I best be sensible  
and call it off. 
So It was in for about 10 minutes.  Pulled it out and was  home by 8:30, 
very disappointed. 
Spent the afternoon sticking them in with Sikaflex and  moaning. 
Hope these pics make it through.  You can just see the air  spilling from 
the widows in the second picture and the boat is going down nose  first. 
Kind Regards 
James

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