Submarines! W.T.F!

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Maleficus 02:08 03-20-2009

Originally Posted by Mailman653:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submari...t_submersibles
Not always the best source of information, but its free!

Did you notice this paragraph:

Originally Posted by :
In 1851, a Bavarian artillery corporal, Wilhelm Bauer, took a submarine designed by him called the Brandtaucher (incendiary-diver) to sea in Kiel Harbour. This submarine was built by August Howaldt and powered by a treadwheel. It sank but the three crewmen managed to escape. The submarine was raised in 1887 and is on display in a museum in Dresden.

"It sank"??

antisocialmunky 02:49 03-20-2009

It sprung a leak like many of the early ones did. Not sure what the joke is, its like saying the IIS decompressed.

Discoman 03:28 03-20-2009

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky:
It sprung a leak like many of the early ones did. Not sure what the joke is, its like saying the IIS decompressed.

I think the joke was the fact that it "sunk" underwater even though submarines are supposed to be underwater in the first place.

anweRU 01:26 03-21-2009

Originally Posted by Discoman:
I think the joke was the fact that it "sunk" underwater even though submarines are supposed to be underwater in the first place.

Actually, those early devices were submersibles, as the tech name correctly states. They were surface vessels that submerged temporarily. The CSS Hunley is considered to be the first submarine to sink a ship, but its conning "tower" was always above the water level.

Even the dreaded German U-boats of WWI and WWII were submersibles, not true submarines. The schnorkel turned submersibles into submarines, i.e. vessels that spend the majority of their time underwater. And of course we now have nuclear propulsion, which is even better.

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