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RE: Second skin
Posted by: bernard zimmermann ()
Date: April 22, 2001 06:16AM

Hi and thanks for this.

What I am unsure about is that one of the earliest observants of the effects of high pressure on people was that people could be subjected to atmospheric pressures of two atmospheres and go back to normal pressure with no ill effect. The main disadvantage that I can see would be that the sailors would be consuming twice as much air as normal.

Say a commander of a submarine wanted the ability to go deeper for a limited period of time. Say he wanted to go under a mine field. This would be a quick immediate solution that could be done on any existing submarine. Why was this not done?

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Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Tom Iwanski 04/13/2001 02:03AM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Ger Wallace 04/13/2001 01:39PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Ken Dunn 04/13/2001 09:57PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Tom Iwanski 04/16/2001 03:53PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Rainer Bruns 04/16/2001 08:42PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Ken Dunn 04/16/2001 10:51PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Tom Iwanski 04/17/2001 02:52PM
Pressure SuperKraut 04/18/2001 06:39PM
RE: Pressure Rainer Bruns 04/18/2001 08:12PM
More questions Tom Iwanski 04/19/2001 11:54AM
RE: More questions J.T. McDaniel 04/19/2001 12:18PM
More pressure SuperKraut 04/19/2001 03:13PM
air tanks and depth charges kurt 04/19/2001 03:43PM
Second skin SuperKraut 04/19/2001 06:58PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? bernard zimmermann 04/18/2001 03:18AM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? J.T. McDaniel 04/18/2001 12:26PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Rainer Bruns 04/18/2001 01:43PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? J.T. McDaniel 04/18/2001 03:35PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Rainer Bruns 04/18/2001 08:10PM
RE: Achilles heel outside of pressure hull? Ken Dunn 04/18/2001 09:32PM
RE: Second skin bernard zimmermann 04/22/2001 06:16AM
Higher internal pressure SuperKraut 04/22/2001 07:05AM
RE: Second skin Ken Dunn 04/22/2001 01:53PM
RE: Second skin Ken Dunn 04/22/2001 02:10PM
RE: Second skin bernard zimmermann 04/27/2001 04:06AM


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