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2010-04-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Bubble Jet from Torpedo 'Likely' Cause of Shipwreck

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Posted by Steve White 2010-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 NET > as of yesterday afternoon, several News sources were still claiming [Nokor] UNDERWATER MINE, NOT SUB TORPEDO???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-04-16 00:13|| 2010-04-16 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Melting blocks of Methane ice!

Posted by Skidmark 2010-04-16 00:28|| 2010-04-16 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3
"Shipwreck"? "bubble jet"? I think we have some translation issues here...

Posted by Parabellum 2010-04-16 08:20|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/ 2010-04-16 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Re: Bubble
A modern torpedo explodes underneath the keel, causing a bubble that breaks the ship in half.
Here's a video of an Aussie test

Posted by Thise the Rasher1619 2010-04-16 09:15|| 2010-04-16 09:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Bubble Video Link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV8MF-440xg

Posted by Thise the Rasher1619 2010-04-16 09:17|| 2010-04-16 09:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Where did the NORKs get a bubble jet torpedo? I expect they can make bubbles, but neither jets nor torpedos.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-16 12:04|| 2010-04-16 12:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I do not think Bubble jet means what you think that it means.

Bubble refers to the cavity in the water which the explosion creates and collapse.

Jet is not the propulsion. Jet refers to the water jet formed by the explosion and collapse of the cavity, creating high pressure directional concentrated hydrodynamic wall of water, aka "jet".

Posted by No I am the other Beldar 2010-04-16 12:32|| 2010-04-16 12:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Wouldn't this traditionally be considered an act of war?

They don't seem that upset about it.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-04-16 15:27|| 2010-04-16 15:27|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks Beldar - I figured as much. I guess my concern would be if the Soviets were sharing their supercavitating torpedo with Kimmie.

And Bigjim - Yes and yes to your comments, but I thought you were in KY? Move?

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-16 16:30|| 2010-04-16 16:30|| Front Page Top

#10 Bubble from the explosion, beneath the keel, can lift a ship and break it's back.

Posted by mojo 2010-04-16 16:33|| 2010-04-16 16:33|| Front Page Top

#11 Yep - A naturally occuring version of that is one of the theories explaining the sinking of the laker Edmund Fitzgerald - not a bubble, but simply large waves with a huge trough which exposed amidships, hence, nothing to support the hull and all that taconite.

Posted by Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-04-16 16:57|| 2010-04-16 16:57|| Front Page Top

#12 Yup, took an engineering job in SF bay area.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-04-16 18:00|| 2010-04-16 18:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I believe the Brits did the same with mines on the bottom in relativly shallow water back in '43.

Posted by Flaper Scourge of the Algonquins4926 2010-04-16 20:56|| 2010-04-16 20:56|| Front Page Top

#14 Yup, took an engineering job in SF bay area.

Congratulations, bigjim!

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