Submarines! W.T.F!

[antisocialmunky]

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

[Discoman]

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]

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.