Alec, Thanks for the compliment Emile, I appreciate it especially because it comes from someone who makes good videos! > If you mean the small movie of the Peppers on my site, the credits for filming and editing goes te Jan Chris van Osnabrugge. At the monemt we are sorting out filming from the Peppers: As far as I know the "real" research subs always launch with the hatch closed as a safety precaution. However, they are launching off a ship, not a trailer. In my case, since the sub is sitting on a trailer it isn't going anywhere until it floats free. The open hatch facilitates communication. Am I missing some other sort of launch accident I haven't thought of? >> Reinhart kusters from the Nemo subbmersible showed me a picture of his sub kapzized with trailer on a onofficial ramp Carsten teached me to do so with peppers once the peppers kapzized while pulling it out of the water due it was not standing good on its trailer with the small base> In such cases it can be useful to launch with closed hatch> regards Emile Alec _____ From: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org on behalf of Emile Sent: Sat 11/25/2006 4:42 PM To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Convention video Wow, great video Alec! Rain seems common for psub conventions.... Why launch the people at the convention the subs with open hatch? We use to close the hatch over here to prevent sinking when a launch accident occurs. The Alvin research sub was sunken (and retrieved) by a launch accident with open hatch. Regards, Emile _____ Van: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] Namens Smyth, Alec Verzonden: zaterdag 25 november 2006 2:07 Aan: personal_submersibles@psubs.org Onderwerp: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Convention video I had only fragments of usable video from the convention, mainly due to the rain and to have been in the sub a lot of the time rather than filming. But I was just able to put together 5 minutes of decent content. When you listen to this please be sure to use something better than the tinny speaker I have on my laptop, the sound is nice if you can actually hear, so reach for those headphones! As usual I had to seriously degrade the image quality to upload, but I tried to keep the sound intact. I'm about to send Ray a DVD with good quality files of this and a second movie that is too long to put on YouTube, and he intends to offer them on the website. I'd also like to extend an invitation to those of you who attended the convention. If you email me your postal address offline, I'll send you a DVD. It's the least I can do. You're all in the credits at the end of the video for the various jobs you did those two days, and if you're in the credits you're entitled to a copy. If I missed you or got you in the wrong job, please advise. The music I used is all royalty free, so this can be distributed freely without violating anyone's rights. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJZodE1SRI Happy thanksgiving everyone... Alec The contents of this e-mail are intended for the named addressee only. It contains information that may be confidential. Unless you are the named addressee or an authorized designee, you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you received it in error please notify us immediately and then destroy it.
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