Bryan Glover wrote:
Your analogy is extremely misleading

It may be misleading, but I dunno about "extremely misleading."

... since the area to which this
force would be applied is hundreds of times smaller. This leads to
hull-pressures that are hundreds of times larger


A large part of that is also due to the energy transient.

In any event, my point was to not underestimate the destructive power of
the ocean, which certain types of cruisers are always doing.


That's not quite right, the force due to deceleration isn't linear.
Comparing a braking distance of 2' to 4', the energy is less than
half... about a third would be closer...


Thats just plain wrong

Well, working with a not-infallible memory, it happens sometimes. I will
go back to the old textbook and see what it says.

DSK