<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_1437936773314_21750"><span>Thanks Al,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21751"><span>good work Tim.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21751"><span>Link that works.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21752" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21760"><a href="http://www.psubs.org/projects/1403928245/gammakootenaylakejul15/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21758">http://www.psubs.org/projects/1403928245/gammakootenaylakejul15/</a><br></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_1437936773314_21757"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21756"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21755"> <hr size="1" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21762"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21754"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Al Secor 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 27, 2015 5:26 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] dive report Gamma<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1437936773314_21996"><br>Alan,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">For the video link to work you need to remove the "/," at the end<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Al Secor<br clear="none"><br clear="none">--------------------------------------------<br clear="none">On Sun, 7/26/15, Alan James via Personal_Submersibles <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] dive report Gamma<br clear="none"> To: "Personal Submersibles General Discussion" <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br clear="none"> Date: Sunday, July 26, 2015, 12:38 PM<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Tim,thanks for<br clear="none"> that great dive report.You<br clear="none"> didn't mention having to untangle the prop from the<br clear="none"> float rope?The link<br clear="none"> didn't work for me & couldn't find the video on<br clear="none"> the site though.Cheers<br clear="none"> Alan<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> From: T Novak via<br clear="none"> Personal_Submersibles<br clear="none"> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>><br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> To:<br clear="none"> 'Personal Submersibles General Discussion'<br clear="none"> <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a>> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Sent: Sunday,<br clear="none"> July 26, 2015 3:49 PM<br clear="none"> Subject: Re:<br clear="none"> [PSUBS-MAILIST] dive report Gamma<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Hi all,<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Shelley and I met Hank at Kootenay Lake to<br clear="none"> photo and video his modified<br clear="none"> Gamma<br clear="none"> submarine. Unfortunately, the visibility was only about<br clear="none"> 4-5 feet, 6<br clear="none"> feet at the depth of 38 feet. <br clear="none"> We had great plans for recording the sub ops<br clear="none"> and went over diver hand signals and what to<br clear="none"> expect. All for not and we<br clear="none"> just did as<br clear="none"> well as we could under the conditions available. <br clear="none"> Underwater<br clear="none"> voice communications would have<br clear="none"> been most helpful.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> On the<br clear="none"> way out we tried hanging onto the front of the submarine at<br clear="none"> first,<br clear="none"> but this proved too difficult for the<br clear="none"> distance required at speed. Shelley<br clear="none"> was<br clear="none"> holding one of the GoPro cameras and the lanyard slipped<br clear="none"> from her wrist<br clear="none"> and the camera went to the<br clear="none"> bottom. We spent the next 10 minutes doing a<br clear="none"> search and recovery dive trying to find this<br clear="none"> $600 new purchase. As what<br clear="none"> usually happens<br clear="none"> when we do a search and recovery dive, Shelley found it. <br clear="none"> We<br clear="none"> were back in business. I still had the<br clear="none"> other GoPro strapped to my head. We<br clear="none"> then<br clear="none"> tied a couple of loops in the trailing dive safety float<br clear="none"> line and this<br clear="none"> worked out much better. We<br clear="none"> felt that we could almost water ski behind this<br clear="none"> boat. <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> When<br clear="none"> we arrived over the 30 foot contour we decided to submerge<br clear="none"> and see what<br clear="none"> we could do. We descended a<br clear="none"> bit faster than Hank in the sub and lost sight<br clear="none"> of him when more than 10 feet away. We<br clear="none"> settled on the bottom and then Hank<br clear="none"> dropped<br clear="none"> out of the sky right beside us... like inches away. All<br clear="none"> good. We<br clear="none"> carried on with the dive as best<br clear="none"> we could. You can see from the photos in<br clear="none"> the Psubs.org Event photos,<br clear="none"> http://www.psubs.org/projects/1403928245/gammakootenaylakejul15/,<br clear="none"> that the<br clear="none"> viz was pathetic. We did not<br clear="none"> go deeper due to the bottom being in the way<br clear="none"> without being towed quite a long way off<br clear="none"> shore. As it was, the built-in<br clear="none"> flash in<br clear="none"> the camera went off due to the low light, causing too much<br clear="none"> back<br clear="none"> scatter. We really wanted to stay<br clear="none"> shallow so that we could use available<br clear="none"> light, but such is the way of things. <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> We were towed back to the<br clear="none"> launch ramp and after changing out of our dive<br clear="none"> gear I went out with Hank as a passenger. We<br clear="none"> travelled further along the<br clear="none"> surface to the<br clear="none"> 100 foot contour where we submerged and descended to the<br clear="none"> bottom. I only had my point-and-shoot camera,<br clear="none"> not a GoPro for this dive<br clear="none"> (don't know<br clear="none"> why), and took a few pics out the dome. After satiating<br clear="none"> ourselves with the awesome views of the mud<br clear="none"> bottom we surfaced and returned<br clear="none"> to the<br clear="none"> launch ramp.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Hank's<br clear="none"> submarine is a most excellent vehicle. It has enough room<br clear="none"> for two<br clear="none"> occupants to comfortably enjoy the<br clear="none"> view out of the amazing front dome. The<br clear="none"> LED light bar lit the scene to what seemed like<br clear="none"> daylight. The high level of<br clear="none"> battery power<br clear="none"> allows for a long transit and also powers the onboard<br clear="none"> compressor to refill the compressed air tanks<br clear="none"> enroute. <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Hank has<br clear="none"> mastered the launch and recovery tasks with his purpose<br clear="none"> built<br clear="none"> trailer. It is of sufficient length<br clear="none"> to launch the sub from most launch<br clear="none"> ramps,<br clear="none"> but it also has a large dolly wheel so that the trailer can<br clear="none"> be<br clear="none"> detached from the truck and submerged on<br clear="none"> a tow strap if necessary. Hank<br clear="none"> installed a<br clear="none"> cat walk and hand rail on the forward part of the trailer<br clear="none"> so<br clear="none"> that he can easily detach the submarine<br clear="none"> from the trailer while he wears<br clear="none"> chest-waders. This allows him to tie the sub to<br clear="none"> the dock and then park the<br clear="none"> truck and<br clear="none"> trailer. He can launch or recover the submarine himself in<br clear="none"> five<br clear="none"> minutes with no other help or equipment<br clear="none"> needed.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> It was a good time<br clear="none"> and the dive was good (Shelley and I do a lot of low viz<br clear="none"> dives). A better viz day in the spring or<br clear="none"> fall would have made a more<br clear="none"> interesting<br clear="none"> photo shoot. None the less, we had a good time.<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Tim<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> -----Original Message-----<br clear="none"> From: Personal_Submersibles [mailto:<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org" href="mailto:personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org">personal_submersibles-bounces@psubs.org</a>]<br clear="none"> On Behalf Of hank pronk via<br clear="none"> Personal_Submersibles<br clear="none"> Sent: July-23-15 5:09<br clear="none"> AM<br clear="none"> To: <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org" href="mailto:personal_submersibles@psubs.org">personal_submersibles@psubs.org</a><br clear="none"> Subject: [PSUBS-MAILIST] dive report<br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> Hi all,<br clear="none"> I went<br clear="none"> out to Kootenay Lake and did a dive with Tim and Shelly<br clear="none"> Novak<br clear="none"> yesterday. I met an engineer from<br clear="none"> Ontario, I showed him my killer light and<br clear="none"> he<br clear="none"> said "why don't you pot the whole thing instead of<br clear="none"> oil filling" Hmmm I<br clear="none"> had no response,<br clear="none"> he also said they have potted LED's for use in<br clear="none"> chemical<br clear="none"> environments. I use a crystal<br clear="none"> clear casting resin for making electrical<br clear="none"> penetrators. 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