On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 12:24:27 +0000, Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:


tell the truth thunder - you live in your mothers basement and surf the
web all day right?

just joking....

Well, I don't live in my Mother's basement, but I do seem to spend more
time on this box than I should. ;-) I'd never thought of a "sonic boom"
underwater, until reading this thread. It did remind me of the Shkval,
and . . . it's truly amazing the technology we use to kill each other.

It may be old news to you, but I did come across this in my readings. One
has to wonder.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/623623/posts

Don White wrote:

Dan Krueger wrote:

Don White wrote:

JimH wrote:

"Floyd" wrote in message
...

"If you did manage to produce enough power, could you power through
the bow wave
and thus produce a shock wave?"

If you did, you would be on plane, traveling over the water for the
most part, and leaving any remnant of a bow wave behind the boat.
Any relation of this phenomena to a sonic or acoustical shock wave
is only academic, since the speed of sound in water is about 5
times faster than air, so it isn't likely that there will ever be a
watercraft moving at 3500mph.





I believe Skipper claimed his Bayliner came close to that speed at
WOT once while on the Sea of Cortez trying to outrun a giant
Tostito. ;-)





Skipper *is* a giant Tostito!



Come on, Don. I know you can do better than that!

Dan


Did I see you on 'Most Haunted' tonight?

I don't watch Nickelodeon.

Dan