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Survive!
Posted by: Walter M. ()
Date: July 06, 2001 06:33PM

<HTML>Let’s discuss how did They tried to survive!
Submariners were trained to escape from a submarine on the bottom. Which was the usual training dept? Maybe 35 metres? More? Less? Were the Americans trained to a higher/lesser dept than the Germans? Which was the maximum dept from which a man successfully escaped? (I heard one sailor survived from a 65 metres dept in the Mediterranean, from a British sub) Did the Japanese have escape equipment? Had the Italians some special device for escaping a sunken submarine? (Yes, they had: it was called “ascensore” (=lift, elevator) and was a cylinder designed to withstand maximum deep and go up to surface and vice versa many times through a manual winch operated from inside the sub, it could carry one man; two units were installed in ocean going subs).
Well, I have thrown the stone in the pigeon school and now You, dear colleagues, might go on.
Greetings and Regards
Walter M.
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Survive! Walter M. 07/06/2001 06:33PM
RE: Survival! John Griffiths 07/06/2001 08:47PM
RE: Survival! Walter M. 07/06/2001 09:08PM


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