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Greetings Fanta
First off congradulations! I saw your profile and you have an impressive
array of languages.
The problem with boat hulls as you likely know, is that they are not a good
shape for withstanding the pressure. So if a sub looks like it has a common boat
hull it is either just a thin covering over a steel tube that hides and protects
all of the external working stuff and also makes the sub more streamlined like
W.W.II subs or it is a wet sub. I am working on building a dry ambient
that is also a surface planing jet boat, and I have some examples of wet
subs the also perform well on the surface on my web site; www.submarineboat.com One is a
design that is currently being built for the US Navy Seals. There are no good
photos available but it is a lot like an inflatable ridged bottom boat that can
deflate and submerge. And the winner of the 2003 Concept Boat
contest is a seed boat/wet sub. Both of these are on my
"Submarine 101" page. Another example was built by Herve Jauvert on the "Evolution of Design"
page. My own boat is a dry ambient which complicates the problem a bit
more because in order to submerge with air inside the cabin, I have to take with
me a lot of lead weight, which is not ideal for a boat that you also want plane
when running on the surface.
Good Day --Doug
In a message dated 5/27/2005 1:12:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
fanta590@yahoo.com writes:
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