A new pump for Uncle Pug

Uncle Pug · Nov 29, 2003

Shane has done a lot to get the boat ready for geoducking.

The blue box houses the surface supplied air compressor and eventually the water pump will be mounted in there as well and the air tank moved to the top of the house.

Here we put the pump on deck just to test it. It squirts heap big water.

Uncle Pug · Nov 29, 2003

... is a Gould two man SS geoduck pump powerd by a 20 hp V-twin Honda.

boomx5 · Nov 29, 2003

Where are we supposed to put our tanks now?

scubajoe · Nov 29, 2003

Way cool toys Pug! Being just a rec diver I assume the pump is supposed to pump warm water down to you. How do you heat the water? Do you have a heat exchanger on your engine to heat it?

Joe

Snowbear · Nov 29, 2003

How many GPM does that puppy squirt? Bet Shane can stir up a heap o' mud with it!!

Uncle Pug · Nov 29, 2003

The pump draws sea water through the white hose and discharges through the black hose to a riser at the stern with two ball valves and quick couplers.

From there the water is sent out through 300' of 1 1/2" firehose to the geoduck diver (Shane in this case) who uses a 3' stinger made from 3/4" pipe to *dig* the geoducks.

The gpm and pressure depend upon the throttle setting of the motor... but to give you an example while we were testing it today I was shooting a 3/4" stream of water about 50'~60'.

The pump will handle two divers so going solo Shane will have it throttled down. At working pressure he can use it to jet propel himself along the bottom... and that is why he wears a 70# weightbelt.

Uncle Pug · Nov 29, 2003

... shore side geoduck harvesting. They really aren't that big.

jiveturkey · Nov 29, 2003

Sorry, I'm missing something.

This thing is for propulsion? What's he doing down there anyway?

jiveturkey · Nov 29, 2003

A geoduck is a clam according to my dictionary. He's fishing?

pipedope · Nov 29, 2003

You can sure get rid of any of that nasty old vis with a rig like that.

Does Shane use a reaction nozzle or just a straight jet?

How do you find and catch the geoducks?

Are you using helmets, FFM or scuba style reg on a LONGGGGG hose?

Sounds like good diving work, heck you even have that nice cool water so you don't overheat working down there.

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