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Re: Other: Underwater Kayak
By:Bill Hamm
Date: 11/6/2013, 2:36 am
In Response To: Re: Other: Underwater Kayak (ancient kayaker)

Actually it's just somewhat larger than some of the midget subs from the next big war. It's hard to scale these things, make them too small and you can't do much with them, nor dive far enough to be useful. In those years you couldn't use carbon fiber, steel was the way to go and if you make it thick enough to withstand the pressures, you have to make it big enough (volume) to still float while holding people, machinery and weapons.

These are technically submersibles, not true submarines, they stay on the surface and only dive to attack or hide. A true submarine only comes to the surface to go into port and/or resupply.

Bill H.

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Other: Underwater Kayak
Malcolm Schweizer -- 10/25/2013, 10:34 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/25/2013, 11:42 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 10/25/2013, 3:01 pm
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Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 10/25/2013, 3:30 pm
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Jon Mortimer -- 10/26/2013, 6:34 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/26/2013, 7:14 am
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Etienne Muller -- 10/26/2013, 3:03 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/27/2013, 12:56 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/26/2013, 3:17 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/27/2013, 12:58 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/27/2013, 8:52 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/29/2013, 1:33 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/29/2013, 5:12 am
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ancient kayaker -- 10/29/2013, 10:36 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/30/2013, 2:14 am
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Marc Upchurch -- 10/30/2013, 3:55 am
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Bill Hamm -- 10/31/2013, 2:00 am
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 10/27/2013, 12:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 10/29/2013, 1:27 am
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Robert N Pruden -- 10/31/2013, 12:20 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/1/2013, 11:50 pm
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Robert N Pruden -- 11/4/2013, 7:56 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/5/2013, 2:10 am
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dave koslow -- 11/5/2013, 11:08 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/6/2013, 2:25 am
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dave koslow -- 11/8/2013, 1:24 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/5/2013, 11:31 am
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dave koslow -- 11/5/2013, 2:26 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/5/2013, 11:54 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/6/2013, 12:18 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/6/2013, 2:36 am
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ancient kayaker -- 11/6/2013, 11:42 am
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Bill Hamm -- 11/7/2013, 1:42 am
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/7/2013, 2:25 pm
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Bill Hamm -- 11/7/2013, 9:43 pm
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JohnAbercrombie -- 11/7/2013, 10:24 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/7/2013, 10:44 pm
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ancient kayaker -- 11/7/2013, 11:13 pm
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Marc Upchurch -- 11/8/2013, 8:07 am