----- Original Message -----From: BauWauHausDesign@aol.comSent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:07 PMSubject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Re: Welcome to the Personal_Submersibles_DiscussionIn a message dated 1/27/03 4:20:36 PM Pacific Standard Time, jbarlow@bjservices.ca writes:
At the bottom of the ocean, were I in a balloon, would not also the balloon
be flat, unless I increase the presure inside the balloon to equal the
outside?
Also doesn't the boat have to weigh the same as the water displaced in
order to sink? So unless it is filled with internal ballast tanks it would
have to weigh the roughly the same as a metal hulled boat?
Just a clarification please?