[PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.

[hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles]

James,
A good lesson here for all, it is perfectly normal to have failed dive trips.  It really sucks, but there is always next week.  
I am sure you are in good company, I will bet even Nuytco has bailed on a dive for similar reasons.  I am sure we all have a story or two of failed dives.

Hank--------------------------------------------
On Mon, 7/6/15, James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

 Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.
 To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
 Received: Monday, July 6, 2015, 5:04 AM
 
 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 RegardsJames 
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