Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] fascinating stories

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@vcn.com>]

lol!  Thanks Carsten!  

Good night?  It's only 15:00 hours, dude!  You another one of them
nightowls?
Carl


Carsten Standfuss wrote:
> 
> Hi Submadmans
> 
> I just finished the CAD drawing of the two used but identical 42 KW DC
> motors arrived today here. One will be Euronauts underwater main drive -
> the other get in store for spare.
> 
> Okay.. "the 7 boats - a storm - 1 boat left" tale. (short version)
> 
> It was also Spurdog, and also the Netherlands and also at the end of the
> 80ies...
> 
> The Netherland have a intercostal Sea - called "Ijsselmeer". The
> Ijsselmeer is huge and covered a large area - but is seperate from the
> North Sea by a seawall.
> 
> ( http://www.hannes-birnbacher.de/bilder/isselmeer-h.jpg )
> ( http://www.frisian-sailing.com/images/allg/vloot/ijsselmeer.gif )
> ( http://www.gpspositioner.nl/IJsselmSat.jpg )
> 
> One problem with that small ocean is that it is so dammed shallow..
> about 6 m deep (20 feet).
> 
> Spurdog was more or less a new boat and the builders drive them
> via small intercostal rivers to the Isselmeer for a pleasure trip.
> 
> Than a real great storm comes over the North Sea and also over the
> Isselmeer.
> 
> During this time about 16 pleasure crafts - 15 sail- or motorboats and
> one submarine was on this real
> dangerous sea- Why dangerous ? Hmm the waves there can be so high that
> they goes down to the seaground..
> "Grundsee" called here - Groundsea (?)
> 
> The crew of the sub started to get seatickness and feel uncomfortable.
> So the captain decide to dive - and put the boat on the seafloor to
> rest. The boats move there a little but not so much - and the crew
> sleep. The storm increase.
> 
> After 16 hours (the time they can stay inside the sub without using
> scrubbers - which were not fitted during this voyage ) thew boat blows
> the tank and it was still a hard sea.. but not longer a storm. And a
> beautiful sunraise.. They start diesel and they drive home.
> 
> Nine boats reach the life saving harbour during this storm - seven boats
> sunk.. and only one boat survive outside harbour - the hole time - a
> submarine.
> 
> Sometimes I tell this story to people how ask me something : "A private
> submarine is a dangerous vessel - isnt it ?"
> 
> Good Night guys - sleep well. And forgive me for my english..  Carsten
> 
> Coalbunny schrieb:
> >
> > I'd like to hear the 7 boats and a storm tale.
> > Carl

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