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Hi Carsten.
I wrote the webmaster of the Hunley official site
and asked him if any studies had been done about the stability of the Hunley is
she dropped her keel weight
and if the conservationists saw any evidence of the
crew trying to drop the weight from their inspection of the relic.
I am awaiting his reply and will post it if and
when he replies.
Kindest Regards,
Bill Akins.
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:19
PM
Subject: Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Hunley
Maybe at the Hunley. But depents on the release mechanism
design.
A good drop weight design can be much quicker release than a
airtank can be blown..
Did they found in the wreck the tread, nut,
key, any drop mechamism ?
In which condition ? Open or closed ? Blocked ?
I can imagine that the crew was just to exhaust and maybe
out of
oxygen after the long trial to handle any longer the pump, the
crankshaft
etc.. everthing was manpower.
Has anybody later calculate if the
boat swim still stable with the drop
weight released ? Many boats are
pretty unstable with the drop weight
released..
regards
Carsten
solomon D schrieb:
>
> Without pressurized air
tanks available to increase
> bouancy in an emergency the hunley was
doomed.There is
> no way you could unbolt the keel fast enough when
an
> emergency happened. Which was proved by the fact that
> it
sank twice before its final
mission.
>
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