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05-05-10, 06:11 PM
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I'd go with Tomoose's guess that's it's maximum depth for firing torpedoes. The deeper you go, the more compressed air it takes to shove out the fish, and (IIRC) the air pressure was fixed, not variable for depth.... something like 500-600 psi.
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