From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 14:48:52 PST
Without appearing to repeat myself, where does the air come from, and where
does the exhaust go, if it's TOTALLY submerged? I am being obtuse, to make
a point. Duh.
apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ryan Gill" <rmgill@mindspring.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 5:45 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] that's some deep water there fella...
> At 5:36 PM -0500 2/6/04, m35products wrote:
> >I, for one, would love to see demonstrated the "totally submerged"
feature.
> >I imagine that the driver would have trouble breathing after a few miles.
> >The exhaust would make pretty bubbles, but the little adapter that makes
air
> >out of seaweed and salt water must still be under development, or
classified
> >top-secret.
>
> Someone posted an url to a video of an M211 (I think) doing some deep
> water fording. The truck was all the way under water (top of the
> windshield was below water) and the driver had a SCUBA kit and mask
> on for his own air supply. I'd post it here, but it's 5.3 megabytes.
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