<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div>Vance,</div><div>a couple of people have mentioned lately the problem of the shifting of</div><div>balance as you reach out with a manipulator & have talked about countering it with</div><div>trim tanks. Is it a big deal if you go nose down, tail up? Possibly more of a problem working on a </div><div>vertical face than picking something up off the bottom. </div><div>Some of our subs will be a lot smaller than <span style="font-size: 10pt;">the working </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">subs you were in so the problem would be </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:
10pt;">accentuated in our case.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Can you give us some of your experience on this thanks & in your opinion is it worth messing</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">about with the trim while operating the manipulator.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 10pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; background-color:
transparent;">Alan</span><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>