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James Johnson
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Submarines, Car Engines, and Displacement
On 07 Jan 2004 08:04:48 GMT,
(Gould 0738) wrote:
Fascinating. What does the depth indicator say when the sub is surfaced?
Obviously it would not be zero.
That would depend on how far it surfaced. Did it blow all ballast or is
it just barely surfaced?
Steve
If you do an emergency blow from test depth, the forward third of the boat will
come completely out of the water when the boat reaches the surface. For those
few seconds I think that would be a 'zero' reading.
JJ
It can't blow enough ballast to put the keel on the surface. My point is merely
that if the depth is measured between the surface and the keel, (and I have no
reason to doubt that it is) there could never be a "zero" reading.
James Johnson
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