[PSUBS-MAILIST] Marlin s101 for sale $80k (lots of pictures)

[irox via Personal_Submersibles]

Possibly they have an internal/hard ballast tanks which could be operated with a hand pump?
Or possibly they count each ballast tank as a separate way to surface.


-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>Sent: Feb 20, 2018 9:06 PM
>To: Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Marlin s101 for sale $80k (lots of pictures)
>
>Wow,   no shortage of pictures and info !   They say 4 ways to surface, I curious as to what those would be. Drop weight of course, but then redundant hp air?
>
>Brian
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>--- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
>
>From: irox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
>To: personal_submersibles at psubs.org
>Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Marlin s101 for sale $80k (lots of pictures)
>Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:38:50 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
>
>
>For a "ready to dive" diesel electric, $80K sounds like a deal:
>http://www.boattrader.com/listing/1987-marlin-32-diesel-electric-s101-manned-submarine-102153353
>Lots of pictures.  I like submarine pictures.
>
>More here as well:
>https://www.popyachts.com/submersible-vessels-for-sale/marlin-32-diesel-electric-s101-manned-submarine-in-vero-beach-florida-40442
>
>Seems it has been de-rated from 1000ft operational depth to "max operating depth is 300 feet".
>Although the wording they use doesn't make perfect sense.  For example, it claims the collapse depth is
>1250ft, but I think they are confused with test depth (per ABS, 125% of operational depth).
>The other ABS claims don't match with my understand of ABS rules either.
>
>Perhaps it can still be rated to 1000ft.
>
>Regardless, this is a beautiful craft, and I am enjoying the (~500?!) pictures.
>
>Cheers,
>  Ian.
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