Comments on: Grace Under Pressure

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:35:34 +0000

I’m not very claustrophobic, but I could do a fine imitation if they turned the lights out…

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:34:45 +0000

the medicine cabinet is the place for hydrogen peroxide

That, and the iodine…

By: biguggy

biguggy — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 14:25:32 +0000

The “Abacore” was a ”full size’ sub. Imagine how cramped it was in the British midget subs with a 4 man crew, or the Japanese two man versions.
I was on one of the British ones (HMS Sprat), as a visitor, many moons ago, there was barely room to move and when ‘they’ attached limpet mines the diver had to get ‘kitted up’ inside then exit through the ‘wet and dry’ compartement and come back the same way when it was all over.

By: Aki

Aki — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:52:55 +0000

Thought the medicine cabinet is the place for hydrogen peroxide, but I was wrong…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide#Propellant

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:36:31 +0000

had limited use in scuba rebreathers because of its dangerously explosive reaction with water.

Sort of like a liquid sodium cooled reactor in a submarine: great efficiency, but an overall bad idea…

By: Aki

Aki — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:22:11 +0000

“The air that I breathe”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_superoxide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_submarine_Vesikko