[PSUBS-MAILIST] inside battery

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It's my understanding that compressed oxygen and oil can be very explosive. If you didn't have any O2 tanks in your sub, I believe you would be ok but someone else here might have more insight than I. I knew a guy that was on O2 and got some oil on his fingers... it put him in the ICU for several weeks. 

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From: "hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> 
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2017 8:13:02 AM 
Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] inside battery 

Hi all, I may have made a bad judgment call, I added batteries to Gamma and was intending to put them in the escape pod. I decided to just put them in the back of the hull instead. I borrowed the batteries from Elementary 3000, they are lead acid in a fibreglass box, flooded with oil with a bladder top. To my mind they are safe because they are flooded with oil. At the same time, are they dangerous because they are flooded with oil. I can's see why they are dangerous, but at the same time, I know people talk about the danger of oil in a sub. I am not sure why? I don't want to invest in AGM batteries yet because I am not totally confident I will be happy with the range. I think I might need a diesel engine. I have worked out the diesel engine idea but it is a 10K investment. That is why I want to give batteries a try first. 
What to do? 
Hank 

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