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The Chicken or the Egg
Posted by: Clark ()
Date: July 03, 2001 04:28PM

How does a U-boat acheive neutral boyancy?

I know that there are saddle tanks on each side of the U-Boat. When the Captain orders the dive, the top of the tanks are opened. This lets sea water in and the U-boat gets heavier.

But what is really happening?

Does the U-boat sink because it takes on more water and is heavier.

Or does the U-boat sink because it loses the buoyant properties of the air held in the saddle tanks.

Clark

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The Chicken or the Egg Clark 07/03/2001 04:28PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Leif... 07/03/2001 07:44PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Werner Frank 07/04/2001 01:30AM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Clark 07/05/2001 03:31PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Clark 07/05/2001 03:33PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Clark 07/05/2001 03:35PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Clark 07/05/2001 03:38PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg Werner Frank 07/06/2001 01:53AM
RE: Which came 1st? The rooster! Werner Frank 07/06/2001 09:30PM
Neutral Buoyancy Clark 08/01/2001 04:50PM
RE: Neutral Buoyancy Werner Frank 08/03/2001 02:01PM
RE: The Chicken or the Egg serdar 08/12/2001 01:18PM


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