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Re: Crash dive?
Posted by: Leif... ()
Date: January 17, 2002 05:12PM

<HTML>The ballast tanks are not always open at the bottom, at least not the internal tank (tank 3 in a type VII). To flood tank 3 you have to open both the air vents at the top and the valves at the bottom. I don&#8217;t now about the external tanks, but I have always thought that they had valves in the bottom to&#8230;?

As for Parade&#8217;s comment, I would say he is right. As long as the tanks are open to the sea somewhere the pressure inside the tank will be the same as the pressure outside. Thus they will not be crushed even if air is trapped inside. The air however will be compressed causing the problems he described.

Leif&#8230;</HTML>

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Crash dive Attila Sipos 01/13/2002 08:18AM
Re: Crash dive? Joe Brennan 01/14/2002 05:59AM
Re: Crash dive? walter M 01/14/2002 02:24PM
Re: Crash dive? kurt 01/14/2002 05:15PM
Re: Crash dive? Parade 01/14/2002 08:41PM
Re: Crash dive? J.T. McDaniel 01/14/2002 11:30PM
Re: Crash dive? Parade 01/15/2002 10:30PM
Re: Crash dive? Joe Brennan 01/15/2002 07:46AM
Re: Crash dive? Parade 01/15/2002 10:25PM
Re: Crash dive? Joe Brennan 01/16/2002 06:57AM
Re: Crash dive? walter M 01/16/2002 01:16PM
Re: Crash dive? Leif... 01/17/2002 05:12PM
oops, my post above was ment to be under Garths po Leif... 01/17/2002 05:15PM
Re: Special for Walter M Garth 01/17/2002 01:36PM


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