Originally Posted by
tdracer
ORAC, thanks for the technical information on the sub - that indeed is an unusual design using spheres instead of cylinders. Very interesting that the first drawing shows the 6-7 spheres unconnected to the rest. Assuming that's accurate and the relatively small size of the sub, I wonder if the fire took out the entire crew in that portion of the boat
BTW Wee Weasley, you must be a barrel of laughs on conspiracy web sights.
I think that spheres are far harder to compress than a tube like structure as such and the vessel can work in a 1atm environment just the same a SSN/SSBN. If you loook at the Trieste, the occupied part was indeed a sphere. Sphere's 6 & 7 obvioulsy contain the nuclear power plant which for any reason has a failure at those depths being isolated may protect the crew whilst the emergency blow even if the stern end was either seriously damaged or even missing. Pure supposition I know.