Is the Seaview's form remotely plausible?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
snagletooth — 11 years ago(December 11, 2014 04:24 PM)
The bow and stern in particular as the body is more or less like the Triton.
Way too much additional wetted surface? Turbulance and instabiolity production?
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KobiyashiMauru — 11 years ago(December 14, 2014 07:46 AM)
Also when you go over 700 feet under the Ocean it's almost always pitch black. Jaques Cousteau once said he sat inside a window compartment that opened to the sea in one of his voyages and said there was nothing to see for HOURS. The open ocean was a dessert, was how he described it.
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flapdoodle64 — 11 years ago(December 17, 2014 01:09 PM)
I used to look at the arrangement of Seaview's fins in the stern, how they were at 2, 4, 8, and 10 o'clock, as opposed to being at 12, 3, 6, and 9 o'clock, and I had never seen a real sub with fins like that, and didn't think it would work.
But the Germans now have an advanced non-nuke sub, the 212A, which has the stern fins in that arrangement:
http://www.westbourne-model.co.uk/acatalog/212_total3_400 (1).jp g
Turns out the sub can maneuver in shallower water that way, which is an advantage in spy missions. -
alpha128 — 9 years ago(May 30, 2016 09:04 AM)
remember that windows were supposed to be made of transparent steel, invented by adm Nelson called Herculite
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That's what it said in the novel. But in the first season episode
The Saboteur (1965)
, Admiral Nelson says the windows are made of some kind of plastic.
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