<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>They are MUCH better friends now.</div><div>Vance<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Oct 15, 2013, at 4:38 PM, Joe Perkel <<a href="mailto:josephperkel@yahoo.com">josephperkel@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">Im still trying to wrap my head around two men sealed into a 36" ID steel drum on a sunny day in <u style="RIGHT: auto">Florida!<var id="yui-ie-cursor"></var></u></span></div>
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<div style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class="hr" contenteditable="false" readonly="true"></div><font size="2" face="Arial"><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</span></b> Alan <<a href="mailto:alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com">alanlindsayjames@yahoo.com</a>><br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</span></b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <<a href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> <br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 15, 2013 1:29 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Emergency Buoy<br></font></div>
<div class="y_msg_container"><br>I don't think Alec will mind me mentioning this. <br>After Alec & Steve's epic dive, which preceded with them being towed for hours in Snoopy;<br>It was discovered that the cord on the emergency release buoy was tangled & wouldn't have<br>been operational if they had wanted to deploy it.<br>It was probably all the wave motion through towing, hitting the drum & causing it to spool<br>& birds nest. <br>They dived without opening the hatch, so weren't aware of the problem.<br>I am not sure of the release mechanism that Alec uses, but this is another thing that needs<br>to be thought about in design & operation.<br>Alan<br><br><br>Sent from my iPad<br>_______________________________________________<br>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org"><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a></a><br><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a></a><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Personal_Submersibles mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>