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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Bushnell's Turtle, revisited.

To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Bushnell's Turtle, revisited.
From: David Buchner <buchner@wcta.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 22:49:40 -0600
In-Reply-To: <20000215.190042.3646.7.michaelbholt@juno.com>

At 1800 -0600 02/15/0, Michael B Holt wrote:
>....what we are left with is a barrel that is not quite round,
>and it's of equal size on the top and bottom.
>
>This gives me a displacement (without the conning tower) of 14,200
>pounds! 

Wow. That's a lot for one guy. How can that be, when I figured it was only going to take 1600 to sink my 100-gallon milk tank? I guess Mr. Bushnell wanted a roomy barrell. One of those lavish black-budget Pentagon things...

-- 
David
Osage MN USA
buchner@wcta.net - http://customer.wcta.net/buchner

References:
- [PSUBS-MAILIST] Bushnell's Turtle, revisited.
  - From: Michael B Holt <michaelbholt@juno.com>

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