SubMaroon: A student experience in submarine design and racing Conference Paper

abstract

• The design, construction and performance of SubMaroon is described. SubMaroon is a two person human powered submarine that designed, constructed, and raced by ocean engineering students at Texas A&M University. It is a free flooded vessel with a life support for the divers provided by a standard SCUBA equipment. This was designed and built to be race in the 1996 World Submarine Invitational that took place in April of 1996. Video tape of the timed runs were used to analyzed the performance of the submarine for comparison with design expectations. Most repairs and adjustments were made underwater to minimized the removal of the submarine from the race basin.

authors

• Randall, Robert

published proceedings

• OCEANS '96 MTS/IEEE, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, VOLS 1-3 / SUPPLEMENTARY PROCEEDINGS

author list (cited authors)

• Ellis, M. S., Ambrose, B. D., & Randall, R. E.

complete list of authors

• Ellis, MS||Ambrose, BD||Randall, RE

publication date

• January 1996

published in

• Oceans -Conference-  Journal

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-7803-3520-1

start page

• 257

end page

• 264

volume

• 1