Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hunley operation & open top ballast tanks

["Akins" <lakins1@tampabay.rr.com>]

I didn't notice that Larry. I'll have to rewatch my tape of it again. Thanks.

 

Kindest Regards,

 

Bill Akins.

 

 

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From: ToolRoomTrustee@aol.com

To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org

Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 8:58 PM

Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hunley operation & open top ballast tanks

In a message dated 5/18/2005 1:33:00 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lakins1@tampabay.rr.com writes:

When I watched the movie "The Hunley" it showed them testing their air starvation endurance by sitting on the bottom.

Did anybody else notice that when the CO of the Hunley was explaining it to one crew he told them that there was a snorkel which they didn't use. A truly anachronistic momen, eh?

 

Larry Murray