Originally Posted by
MENELAUS
Not a Scottish Loch per se. A tank at Glen Fruin near Faslane. Now derelict. And indeed your lecturers spoke the truth. Once that forward compartment filled up with water the thing sank like a rock, floats or no. STAS was ( and is) a great bit of kit…draconian briefs aside.
If you search for, and read, the Australian board of inquiry report into the SF Blackhawk accident where it bounced off the back of a boat, it’s enlightening. One of the survivors described the hydrodynamic forces as like “sticking your head out of an express train window doing 100 mph”.