Underwater Flight

4 responses to “Underwater Flight”

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   sandrino

   Jul 7, 2005 at 2:21 pm

   Wicked! Does it come in other colors? I rather have this than a Hummer anyday!

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   jurvetson

   Nov 28, 2005 at 12:39 am

   any color, as long as it’s blue.

   

   The super deep one in development is red, methinks.

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   flytrue2

   Nov 9, 2011 at 1:31 pm

   Interesting concept. My gut reaction is to be a little leary of so many complex curves in a vehicle designed to "fly" through the Marianas where the pressure on the hull at 10,900 m is roughly equivalent to 1100 atmospheres (1.129×10^8 Newtons/square meter or 16,300 psi) .

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   jurvetson

   Nov 9, 2011 at 4:16 pm

   The blue and yellow external parts are fairings that do not see a pressure differential. Most of the inner body (with the working components) is unpressurized. Only the two cast aluminum "body bags" with domes are under pressure and are served by a diving rebreather.

   And the super-deep design is a variant on this one. They claim Challenger is the only sub that can go to 36,000 ft. And they plan to go

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