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Test pilots have parachutes, and submariners have drop weights.

I’m not an engineer. Likely you are not one either, but if you learn a few facts it’s amazing what you can do with those, some common sense and a desire live an adventurous life.

The Argonaut Jr was the best classroom I ever entered.

Boyle’s Law explains the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas when temperature is constant. It states that the volume of a gas is inversely proportional to its pressure, meaning if you increase the pressure, the volume decreases, and vice versa.

From Jules Verne’s “20, 000 Leagues Under the Sea” to Simon Lake’s Argonaut Submarine. “Anything one man can imagine; other men can make real.” -Jules Verne

Take all of the classes you want, earn the degrees, read all of the books; but nothing, absolutely nothing will compare to what you will learn from designing, building, and using it yourself. Nothing! –Doug

“My diving suit really should have been preserved in a museum if only as an example of what can be done when one has to do it. I hammered iron into the form of an open helmet, into the front of which I fastened a dead-light, from an old yacht, and covered the whole, except for the dead-light-with painted canvas … Read More

You never forget your first.

Taking the last steps before taking the big plunge.