[PSUBS-MAILIST] Flathead Lake trip

Mon Aug 12 01:53:39 EDT 2019

Alan, Here are my favorite shots of Cliff in action.

On Sun, Aug 11, 2019, 9:30 PM Alan via Personal_Submersibles <
personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:

> We should resurrect the Psubs awards for that effort Cliff.
> Not sure what category you just won!
> Alan
>
> On 12/08/2019, at 2:41 PM, Cliff Redus via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
> That is because I am still traveling the 2050 miles from Montana to
> Texas.  I am still about 600 miles from home but we are in Texas.  I will
> begin uploading pictures, video, cockpit voice recordings and boat dive
> data to David Colombo tomorrow late when I get back.
>
> Last time I spoke David, he had over 1/3 of a terabyte off data and that
> was without most of the teams individual files.
>
> It is going to take David and Alec some time to digest the files.
>
> More latter but for me, this was my best set of dives to date for the
> R300.  Visibility was great and we made a lot of great dive sites in the
> lake.
>
> Thursday night at about 10-11 pm Gamma and the R300 each made our first
> night dives.  We descended together to 200 ft.  Tenders said that it looked
> like a UFO slowly descending into the black.  It was a hoot.
>
> More later including a “das boat” video clip of my boat at Yellow Bay and
> one of my all time favorites, the “Great White” clip in which Alan Parks
> videoed the R300 as she passed 3-4’ directly below the keel of Jessie B and
> emerged out the starboard side.
>
> From 1-5pm on Friday we had at least 300 visitors to the boathouse ,
> mostly very excited kids.  Was a joy!
>
> Great week, great support from FLBS and a great team.
>
> More later
>
> Best Cliff
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Aug 11, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
> Haven't seen any pics of Cliff's sub !
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
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> From: hank pronk via Personal_Submersibles <
> personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> To: Brian Cox via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org>
> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flathead Lake trip
> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 03:11:47 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Brian,
> Yes it was a great trip.  It was well planned out and the FLBS facility
> was incredible, plus the the boats and crew were great!
> It turns out the sampler connector can be installed from two directions.
> I had it installed in reverse and the relay that switches polarity burnt
> out from leaving it on too long by accident.  Luckily the connection was in
> backwards allowing me to reverse it by switching to the working side of the
> relay.  Otherwise I would have had to hard wire to the breaker to make it
> work, and we would have done that.
>
> I forgot we did have an incident, just prior to diving with a student an
> o-ring failed on my 80 cu ft HP tank.  Air suddenly burst from the yoke
> connection.  Dave jumped right on it and turned off the air valve.  We only
> lost 800 psi and were able to replace  the o-ring from Tim's spares and we
> could make the dive.
> Hank
>
> On Saturday, August 10, 2019, 8:40:08 PM MDT, Brian Cox via
> Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles at psubs.org> wrote:
>
>
> Sound like it was and incredibly great trip !   Sorry I missed that one !
>  Why did you have to reverse the polarity on the relay?
>
> Brian
>
>
>
> --- personal_submersibles at psubs.org wrote:
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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>
> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Flathead Lake trip
> Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 22:33:07 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Hi All,
> Unlike Cliff and David, I had a short trip home from FLBS today, so I can
> make the first report on the trip.  All went smooth for Gamma except for a
> failed CO2 meter,   I was going to cancel one day of diving to drive home
> and get the spare, but David and I decided that it was safe to dive with
> just an O2 meter and the altimeter.  I have not practiced with that because
> I had a reliable CO2 meter for years.  Turns out it is very easy and
> reliable.  The altimeter correlated perfectly with the O2 meter - just
> allow for temp drops at the bottom.  David and I had an exceptional dive on
> a vertical wall about 225 feet deep-in fact the wall had an outcrop above
> the sub.  We managed to take many samples with the sampler for the science
> guys.  David and I had to rewire the polarity of the sampler while clinging
> to the side of the rock wall.  I parked by clinging to the rock wall with
> forward thrust to keep us in place at the proper depth for sampling while
> David located bits of sediment among the rocks.  At the same time we had to
> revers the wires on the relay in the electric panel.   It was a total gas!
> We though we might have to drill and blast to get samples and had lots of
> fun joking in the sub about that.  This was my all time best dive in Gamma
> and Dave was a riot to have with me.  Dave , Tim and I are ready to compete
> in the sub launch and retevial  races -we are a well oiled machine, the
> three of us.  Warning to Cliff, we will be recruiting  Sean to team Canada
> in the future.  One of my female passenger stated that the sub ride was in
> the top ten best things she ever did.  Then 10 minutes into the dive she
> corrected that and said it was in the top five things she ever did.
> Finally after cruising the bottom for a while she proclaimed it was the
> number 1 best thing she ever did.  That was the highlight of the trip for
> me.
> Hank
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