[PSUBS-MAILIST] Pilot Fish unmanned -255m dive report

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Congrats, big milestone! How did you do the test? Did you just put a dive computer on the outside to verify depth? That's a really deep test.

Best,

Alec

> On Jul 2, 2016, at 3:01 PM, Antoine Delafargue via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello Psubbers, 
> 
> Yesterday the Pilot Fish hull went down to -255m off the coast 
> 
> For a long time I have wondered how to pressure test the Pilot Fish hull. There was the Aberdeen Hypobaric center option, but way up in Scotland, and also a test chamber in Cherbourg, France operated by DCNS, closer but much more expensive and requiring loading the hull vertically with a special support. 
> Other option: deep lake. Unfortunately there are not that many options in France with easy access. At last, a deep spot in the sea. Ever wasted time on the internet looking for things like where is the deepest point on the planet or where is the farthest point from land in the ocean? I did some of that 
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