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[Subculture]

Submerge at St Albans. Date for the event is Sunday June 13th 2010 10am-4pm. Cheap bar, a nice sunny aspect with a 100ftx60ft pool of crystal clear water, and free on-site parking.

The pool will be filled earlier this year, so we should have it full to the brim this time round.

£5 per person in advance £1 spectators. £10 per person on the day, £2 spectators.

Any profits made will be refunded to those on the day, however those who pay and don't turn up will have to forfeit. This is only fair to those who make the effort to come along.

[ChrisN]

Hi,

My buddy Clive and I would love to come along to Dive-In to summer.

We have three submarines between us; a pre WWI French sub, a WWII British T class, and HMS Vanguard (currently in service).

What is the best way to pre book.

Cheers.

ChrisN

[Subculture]

The easiest way is to pay via Paypal to my email address. Failing that, I will accept a cheque made payable to me. PM me your email address, and I will get in contact with you to discuss further.

Sounds like some interesting models....!

[ChrisN]

Hi,

My e-mail address is cnetherway@btinternet.com, and PayPal works for me.

I'm getting all excited about the event already - just time to sort out my depth keeping mechanism before the show.

Regards

Chris

[Subculture]

You will be pleased to hear upon visiting St Albans Sub Aqua Club tonight, I found the pool filled to the brim and gin clear- perfect.



Taken tonight.



Another shot, note the 1:1 human subs- wonder if they're fitted with levellers?



You can see all the way to the bottom! (9 feet)

The bar is well stocked, with real ale and lagers on draft, soft drinks and spirits for those who prefer to preserve their waistline! Bar snacks are also available, although I suggest you bring a packed lunch.

This will be my last posting before the event, so to those that have already signed up, see you there. To those who have been wavering, you have four more days to get your money to me to benefit from the reduced rate.

The weather forecast is showing high pressure, so fingers crossed the sun will be shining on the day. I will be there from 9:00am, anyone turning up early may be drafted into lending a hand putting out the tables!

There will be some small topical road signs close to the venue, so keep your eyes peeled for the little black submarines which point the way.

Andy

[hollowhornbear]

see you there, getting excited now 
Kev and Jim.

[Bill D203]

I here Andy is comming to help you guys on Sunday. GOOD LUCK
That way we don't have to put up with him at Stevenage model boat clubs big day. Thanks.

[Subculture]

Thank you for your sterling contribution to my thread, what a fine ambassador you are for your club.

[hollowhornbear]

more than happy, jim and i will be bringing, an akula, an undine in disguise, sleeping beauty, modified deep dive VII and the illusive seawolf from brockwell.
getting very excited 

[Mankster]

Thats some fleet, I'd be interest to see how your Sleeping Beauty performs.

[hollowhornbear]

so will jim and I, only had one try so far way underballasted. twitchy at best methinks only bout 14" long.

[StevenageMBC]

Was an excellent day thanks to Andrew for organizing it

A couple of videos I took...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6Hnl6nNXCY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fgd0o8pCXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7QnSjhYOXA

[Flying Sparks]

Thanks Andy, myself and Michael had a great time at our first dive-in. We were made very welcome and Michael was thrilled to drive so many different subs, thanks folks 

The esc in Michaels Unseen fried on her first dive this morning but not before he had 10 minutes of fun! The esc is packed up ready to go for repair.

I will post some photos and video later.

Cheers

Phil.

[hollowhornbear]

well done Andy, great day, great fun and great company. 
Flying Sparks:- glad Michael enjoyed himself, hope you have deep pockets, or he has a large paper round.
See you all at the next one

[Flying Sparks]

A few photo's from the Dive-in.



I have a video as well but I need to squeeze it befor posting on YouTube.

Kev, I think will have to sell Mikes siblings as we are talking about building a Sea Wolf 

Phil.

[Mankster]

Somemore pictures from the day. I had some video shot from aboard a sub (thanks Mike) too, but I'm  have having trouble extracting that from the SD card  

[Subculture]

Okay, this turned out to be a fantastic day with seventeen people turning up to sail, and quite a few spectators from our hosting scuba diving club. My thanks to everyone that turned up and supported the event- it doesn't happen without you.

I counted 24 boats on display, with a wide variety of subjects. The weather was bright,sunny and pleasantly warm.

Here are some pictures, I'm sure others will add to them.

[kaleun]

What a great day.Ive already started work on the Sleeping Beauty.Ill get that little thing to work properly whatever it costs Kevin.

[ChrisN]

Hi Guys,

Thanks for a great day, me and Clive really enjoyed it. Sorry I took so long to sort out this posting, life's been full.

I took some under water footage, but it appears to be out of focus. Did anyone else have this problem? The camera seemed to be working fine, but the result was blurred under water  .

Does anyone else have underwater footage? What has happened to the 'Professional' underwater video footage?

You tube is taking its time processing my video, so I'll add a link to it with my next posting.

Meanwhile here's some of the stills I took.

[ChrisN]

Finally got my video through YouTube.

The link is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4vYLGk5s8I

If anyone has an idea about the focus problem, can they let me know.
I've had problems in the past with condensation on the lense, but I don't think that that was the problem this time, as the final shot as it comes out of the water is sharp.

I found some other underwater fotage of the day on YouTube, and its a lot clearer than mine.

Perhaps I need some sort of optical filter over the lens. Any ideas?

Chris.

[Subculture]

I think the problem could be the domed housing you have acting as a second lens.

Try taking some footage in the back garden and see if that is out of focus. You may need to make up a cylinder with a flat piece of glass or acrylic at the front, and just round off the edges to provide a bit of streamlining.

[ChrisN]

I Think that your right!

The image is perfectly clear when out of the water, but I think there is a lensing effect under the water.

Previous footage I took with the dome in the local lake was clear, but I moved the position of the camera inside the dome to make room for a magnetic on/off switch.

I'll try a quick rebuild (always the fun bit for me).

Cheers

Chris.

[Subculture]

Have a look at this for a bit of inspiration-

http://rc-sub.com/underwatercamera.html

If you take a close peek at the pictures, you'll see the front is a piece of flat acrylic sheet, with a machined edge, solvent welded to some acrylic tubing.

You'll have to make your housing a bit bigger to accommodate the flycam footprint.

[ChrisN]

Its OK, I work at a company that makes drain inspection cameras.

There was much shaking of heads and tutting when I showed the mechanical engineers my camera housing.

I've now been given a nice bit of flat acrylic for the window, and I'm going to machine a housing to take it.

I was very impressed with the speed and agility of some of the smaller boats the other week, and I've been musing with motorising the pod to make a complete dynamic diving sub.

I'll get the towed pod working first, but I think a nippy self propelled camrera pod may appear in the future.

Chris

[raf]

hallo


http://www.youtube.com/user/chikes4862#p/u/0/A3tOlckfSvg

one of the photos you see a good sale and self-built camera diving ROV
it's that little yellow one
consisting of a T piece PVC drain coupling and three PVC bayonet joints
twoo 400  types of engines in external casing and a pump with a syringe as a diving tank
10 supper LEDs for lighting and a oregon camera to film
three controllers for the pumps and motors to steer
 this boat down to the mm remain hovering in place and filming

Greetings raf