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Strategies & Market Trends : Piffer OT - And Other Assorted Nuts
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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (49696)8/21/2000 10:25:20 PM
From: Oral Roberts   of 63513
 
I'm not sure how to equate a seismic reading to an explosion, besides I just worked on the steam stuff:) I would surmise that they were fueling a torpedo (cheap but totally unsafe and thank goodness we gave that up long before I went in) and had perhaps the first explosion, then when running into the sea bed perhaps a weapon that was armed slid ahead and torched off. Appears like they were supposed to shoot 1 fish so perhaps this would fit.

Or I suppose the weapon just went off causing massive flooding and the boat slamming the sea floor caused the 2nd reading.

From the description of the damage and my dim memory of that boat, they were hosed and consigned to the bottom within the first minutes.

Jeff Roberts

You need to remember if you are adding liquid fuel to a torpedo that it is like adding gas to a car engine. Difference is is that this engine needs to run underwater so the fuel is impregnated with O2. Makes for a very volatile, explosive mixture.
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