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RE: Bathythermograph
Posted by: Derek ()
Date: March 07, 2001 05:49PM

I don\'t have an answer, but I too have wondered about this. Historically, in the Pacific theater, US subs (Baleo and Tench) could almost always find a thermal in the first 500ft. With the U-Boats\' greater depth capabilities, it seems as if thermals would have been more significant. And yet, I can\'t remember a U-Boat account in which a thermal factored into an escape. In the Pacific war, accounts of evasion \"thanks to a good thermal\" are rife.

Why were thermals less of a factor--or at least a known or discussed factor--in the Atlantic theater?

Derek

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Bathythermograph Visje 03/07/2001 01:17PM
RE: Bathythermograph Derek 03/07/2001 05:49PM
RE: Bathythermograph Visje 03/07/2001 06:39PM
RE: Bathythermograph Antonio Veiga 03/07/2001 11:24PM
RE: Bathythermograph kurt 03/07/2001 11:43PM
RE: Bathythermograph Visje 03/08/2001 07:36AM
RE: Bathythermograph John Doe 03/08/2001 08:18AM
RE: Bathythermograph Visje 03/08/2001 05:42PM
RE: Bathythermograph David W 03/09/2001 03:48AM
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