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Old 11-30-07, 02:43 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
It does not seem so Tater. Once the damage starts it takes off like a rocket and there is no saving the crew Then again, perhaps we watch to much Hollywood. Maybe the chain-reaction is that fast at great depths. Those who know usually do not make it back.
I always understood that when a pressure hull fails at great depth it does so catastrophically. I saw a docu about the USS Thresher once (for those who are not familiar, the Thresher was a US SSN in the 60's that was lost due to pressure hull failure at great depth) and it suggested that the hull imploded almost instantaniously under the pressure.

Infact it also said that the crew was actually incinerated before they were crushed because the compression of the Oxygen in the boat, happened so quickly, it would cause it to spontainiously combust.

I don't know if this would apply to a WWII vintage sub, could it stand the depths that an SSN could before it was crushed?
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