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Originally Posted by Suhiir
At least you get to live in relative comfort at the bottom of the sea.
Trade ya for a mud filled foxhole.
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Not a fair deal, Suhiir. Reading this post after being drawn here by MarkSheppard's post (I try to read his stuff), it brought to mind my boyhood fascination with subs. I remember in the 8th grade two boys immigrated to the US from Germany. I questioned them incessantly after Wofgang told me their dad served on a U-boat. Most recently, I read Rick Campbell's The Trident Deception, fascinating submarine story interwoven into a complex geopolitical/military thriller. You don't live in relative comfort at the bottom of the sea, any sea, even the Red Sea. Although official crush depths are secret, given published test depths, the crush depth or collapse depth is no where near the bottom of any sea on earth. Maybe, the sub would lay on the edge of undersea mountainous cliff but certainly not at the bottom with a live crew.
In the book, The Trident Deception, an axiom of sub warfare was stated in general terms as; "one crew lives, the other crew dies." A torpedo hit sends her to the bottom, she and her crew dies.
So, keep your foxhole along with all your "dope and beer."
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