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A Sub Dangerously Tests How Deep It Can Go


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A Submarine Dangerously Tests How Deep It Can Go

The USS Tang was a state-of-the-art Balao class submarine, certified by the Navy to dive up to 400 feet. But in order to test her for battle, commander Dick O'Kane decides to take her even deeper.

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So if he'd sunk as a result of his foolhardiness, he'd have not only killed himself but 80 other, very expensively trained people. 
Way to go, foolhardy heroism. 

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2 hours ago, Manfred von Dreidecker said:

So if he'd sunk as a result of his foolhardiness, he'd have not only killed himself but 80 other, very expensively trained people. 
Way to go, foolhardy heroism. 

I disagree.  That test needed to be done to ensure that it could withstand pressure waves from depth charges when it was in evasion mode at shallower depths.

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