<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3474"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3473">Thanks James,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3476" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3475">as a group we learn more from these fails than successes.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3476" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3971">Be good to hear the post mortem when you pull them apart.</span></div>Alan<br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3894"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3893"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3892"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3970"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3969"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles <personal_submersibles@psubs.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Personal Submersibles General Discussion <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, July 6, 2015 9:04 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [PSUBS-MAILIST] Dive fail.<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3895"><br><div id="yiv3779369275"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3897"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3968">Hi All,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3896"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3899"><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3898"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3967"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3966">
I had a failure of a day on Sat. I put the boat in, and it had a
leak. Not into the pressure hull, so it wasn’t a complete failure, but
the leak was from the forward main tank. The nearly useless windows that I put on the forward tank were leaking air. Not just a little bit which I could have put up with it, but loads. The boat was diving quicker than venting normally.
</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3965"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3902"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3901"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3900">I pulled it out and went around tightening them up. Put it back in and it didn't make any difference.</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3964"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3903"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3963"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3962">It was strange as they have been perfectly ok before. I think the problem is that on Friday while I was prepping the boat for diving, I went around and tightened the bolts. It must have broken the seals. </font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3904"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3907"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000">Anyway. </font></span><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3906"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3905">I could have possibly winged it by running with a reduced main ballast, but as
I was heading into the open sea, I thought I best be sensible and call it off.</font></span></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3961"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"> </font></span></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3908"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3910"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3909">So
It was in for about 10 minutes. Pulled it out and was home by 8:30, very
disappointed.</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3911"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3912"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3960"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3959">Spent the afternoon sticking them in with Sikaflex and moaning.</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3958"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3913"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3957"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3956">Hope these pics make it through. You can just see the air spilling from the widows in the second picture and the boat is going down nose first.</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3914"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3955"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_4122"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_4121">Kind Regards</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_3954"><span style="font-size:10pt;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_4237"><font color="#000000" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1436179229655_4236">James</font></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#000000"></font></span> </div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><img width="535" height="401" src="cid:O3xLBSSjEx82cQqr1G2q" data-id="c40c9ec4-0627-7a70-3dd1-d77dd6b787ea"></span></div><div class="yiv3779369275MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><img width="376" height="501" src="cid:4WDgWpJ44tc3UnEc15F5" data-id="9d9e1348-244d-ac64-74f4-28454bd351be"><br><br></span></div><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
</font></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Personal_Submersibles mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org">Personal_Submersibles@psubs.org</a><br><a href="http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles" target="_blank">http://www.psubs.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/personal_submersibles</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>