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Old 11-07-09, 01:33 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by WEBSTER View Post
heres my crazy idea with no clue if it will work but i think it would need to be based on one single floatation sphere at bow and one at stern with none in the middle so the bow and stern stay attatched to the water as it were to follow the waves.

but this means sinking a ship by flooding is out and ships sink only from damage because the floatation pheres would have to be unfloodable or one being flooded would stand the ship on end
Wouldn't work. The uboat would be underwater for most of the waves.

What I was thinking was... what about increasing the mass of the uboat? It should respond faster to gravity, no?
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