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To: bill1952

the WATER pressure is equal all around even if it is on the bottom.


50 posted on 08/05/2005 6:20:13 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help...)
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To: Mr. K; orionblamblam
If it has settled IN the bottom, there is no water pressure.

As an earlier posted noted there would be a hydraulic pressure from, say, mud, but the problem is that that increases the suction problem.

You can all disagree as much as you want in theory, but numerous vessels have been torn in half by that hydraulic suction caused by lifting them from much more shallow depths.

In fact, positioning ships and rigging cables is pretty standard procedure down to about 50 meters. - After that it becomes very, very difficult, and the focus turns to removal of the crew rather than salvage of the vessel.

As far as asymmetry is concerned in actual hull collapse, 625 is nowhere near crush depth for any DSRV that I am aware of.

56 posted on 08/05/2005 6:41:25 AM PDT by bill1952 ("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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