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<body link="#000000" vlink="#000000" alink="#000080" topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"><font face="Courier New" size=2>For what reason you have the 5 portholes
in your ballast tank? </font> <BR>Scuba diver inside the tank??
<BR><BR>vbr Carsten <BR>
<BR>"James Frankland via Personal_Submersibles" <personal_submersibles@psubs.org> schrieb:
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<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div> </div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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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 wasnt 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.
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><font color="#000000">I pulled it out and went around tightening them up. Put it back in and it didn't make any difference.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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><font color="#000000">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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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><font color="#000000">Anyway. </font></span><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
><font color="#000000">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></p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman" size="3">
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><font color="#000000">So
It was in for about 10 minutes. Pulled it out and was home by 8:30, very
disappointed.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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><font color="#000000">Spent the afternoon sticking them in with Sikaflex and moaning.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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><font color="#000000">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></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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><font color="#000000">Kind Regards</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
><font color="#000000">James</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><span style="'FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Arial","sans-serif"'"
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