RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] US Navy diver - 2000ft in Hardsuit 2000

[Phil Nuytten <pnuytten@compuserve.com>]

For P-subber info:
        The recently announced "US Navy 2,000 foot record dive in ADS" is
not any sort of an international record - the Oceaneering 'WASP'  ADS is 
Lloyds certed to 2000 feet and has made lots of routine dives in that depth
range - (design collapse is in excess of 4000 feet) The USN 2000 foot suit
was a contract that we entered into in 1996, while I was head of Hard Suits
Inc. The 2000 foot joint is simply the original Newtsuit joint  (the
patented principle of the Newt Suit joint is that it , in theory, depth
independant -  since it is automatically depth/pressure compensated . At
some point , though, the pressure loads do cause physical distortion for a
given housing thickness)  with a slightly beefed up housing to accept the
higher internal joint pressure. It's kind of astonishing that it took a
decade for the USNto finally take delivery of this model! Hard Suits
changed ownership a number of mes - and became 'Ceanics', then 'Oceanworks'
during that ten year period. The 1000 foot and 1250 foot Newtsuits have
been standard with the major Navies of the world since 1987 when we sold
suits to the Canadian Navy.
        I guess the 'record dive' is simply a 'USN record dive for ADS' -
but, what the hell! -it's  an impressive feat and I am proud to be the
inventor of the joint used in the dive! 
Phil Nuytten
  




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