And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The ship is usually on fire, and the water cold enough to give you about 7 minutes before hypothermic coma. After you burn, you drown.
I'll take the thrill ride, thanks very much. All the seats face backwards, btw, and the harnesses make the security on thrill roller coasters look wimpy.
I guess most people would know, this is an example of a test failure. Maybe the launch ramp is angled wrong, or they are testing the craft without any weight onboard to simulate passengers. The boat is supposed to travel underwater, continuing its forward path, before surfacing, by design. The purpose is to get further away from a potentially burning facility, an offshore installation, a drilling rig, or a ship.
Wooo! Now realize they make lifeboats like these for saturation divers who have to live under high mixed-gas conditions & also be rescued under pressure or they'd die from decompression sickness. Now imagine one of those guys in pic-related lifeboat.
Free-fall lifeboats required on larger cargo vessels and drilling platforms, usually equipped with motor and enough fuel to clear oil spill/fire hazard range and minor sea keeping ability.
If the alternative is drowning while freezing to death, maybe.....
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Hopefully the lucky souls would be strapped in as tight as Chuck Yeager was when testing the Bell rocket jobs.
ReplyDeleteThey're supposed to be.
DeleteI think that I might take my chances on the sinking ship.
ReplyDeleteThe ship is usually on fire, and the water cold enough to give you about 7 minutes before hypothermic coma. After you burn, you drown.
DeleteI'll take the thrill ride, thanks very much. All the seats face backwards, btw, and the harnesses make the security on thrill roller coasters look wimpy.
If you're doing that for real you already know you're having a bad day...
ReplyDeleteMy back just had a sympathetic spasm.
ReplyDeleteI guess most people would know, this is an example of a test failure. Maybe the launch ramp is angled wrong, or they are testing the craft without any weight onboard to simulate passengers. The boat is supposed to travel underwater, continuing its forward path, before surfacing, by design. The purpose is to get further away from a potentially burning facility, an offshore installation, a drilling rig, or a ship.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't get in unless it has a bathroom and they serve free drinks.
ReplyDeleteWooo! Now realize they make lifeboats like these for saturation divers who have to live under high mixed-gas conditions & also be rescued under pressure or they'd die from decompression sickness. Now imagine one of those guys in pic-related lifeboat.
ReplyDeleteI like it
ReplyDeleteMight work. Still good way to puke your guts out
ReplyDeleteCritter has Go-Go twisty thingie on a shaft.
ReplyDeleteWhat would the range on internal power be?
Asking for a friend.
John Pinette says if it doesn't have a buffet and a casino it is not seaworthy.
ReplyDeleteFree-fall lifeboats required on larger cargo vessels and drilling platforms, usually equipped with motor and enough fuel to clear oil spill/fire hazard range and minor sea keeping ability.
ReplyDeleteNow imagine doing that in a sea state with 25 foot breakers all around because the wind is cutting the tops off of 'em.
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