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Limitation: Oxygen and carbon dioxide
Posted by: submarinehunt ()
Date: August 18, 2015 08:57PM

Thank you very much for the pointers for more info.
I was having a quick read of the VII manual. They say that the oxygen and carbondioxide absorbers allow 72 hours supply. I am a bit perplexed. I presume that in mid sea, there was no way to replensih oxygen or the co2 absorber chemicals. So doing the maths, one could then , assuming 8 hours submerged, would limit patrols to only 8 days or so ? I thought many u boat patrols were much longer.

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Oxygen and carbon dioxide submarinehunt 08/18/2015 06:39PM
Re: Oxygen and carbon dioxide SnakeDoc 08/18/2015 07:10PM
Limitation: Oxygen and carbon dioxide submarinehunt 08/18/2015 08:57PM
Re: Limitation: Oxygen and carbon dioxide SnakeDoc 08/19/2015 08:56AM


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