Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Semi-Submersible?

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

Ok Mike, now ya got my interest in rivers, bridges, tugs and subs
peaked.  What is the potential of a sub taking the Mississippi river? 
How fasr can it go?  Submerged, I don't think it could.  Surfaced
though, I bet it could go some distance.  On the Ohio and Missouri as
well.  I understand that tugs go as far inland as Omaha.  I know that on
the west coast they can also go to Sacramento.  And what about the
adjoining watercourses where tugs go?
Carl


Michael Holt wrote:
> 
> David Buchner wrote:
> >
> > It's like one of those stunts in an adventure movie, like laying a
> > motorcycle on its side to get under a semi, or tipping a car up on
> > two wheels to squeak through a narrow alleyway. Amazing.
> 
> I can see this in an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.  Arnie is being
> chased in the towboat, a river patrol boat filled with angry bad
> guys blazing away at him.  He knows they're going to catch up with
> him unless he does something NOW.
> 
> The bridge comes up and he turns the towboat; the baddies grin
> with the sure knowledge that they have him.  The towboat is
> swept under the bridge.  The bad guys laugh, knowing he's dead.
> 
> The towboat slips under, pops up on the other side, and staggers
> upright and back on course.  When the boat is pointed in the
> right direction, Arnie turns to the leading lady and says
> brightly, "I saw that on the Internet."
> 
> It would not have been as much fun with a real sub.  And it
> does bring to mind a question about the Bionic Dolphin: how
> long with the engine run with no air?  Is the engine shut
> down or is the load taken off when the boat submerges?
> 
> I bet that towboat was overhauled soon after that event.
> If anyone admitted doing it.
> 
> Mike
> or
> 
>  I can totally imagine the skipper pulling an "I meant to do that"
> afterward, pulse pounding in his ears, astonished that the universe let
> him get away with that. Can you imagine the next day? Trying to tell
> yourself that it really happened? Holy crap! Those tugs are BIG. And
> HEAVY.
> >
> > Wow.
> >
> > I'm impressed. Can you tell?
> >
> > Wow.
> > --
> >
> > David
> > buchner@wcta.net - MN, USA
> > http://customer.wcta.net/buchner

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