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David Buck

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of David Buck   Send Email To David Buck Posted on: Jul 31, 2013 - 5:55am
OK all jokes aside (at least for a minute or two) there are a number of Lakes and Inland seas that are either a certain amount above sea level or below sea level this I know from my friendly Dive Instructor.

Why does this matter the main reason is that when diving at high altitude you have to be very careful with the decompression tables, IE; rather fatal if you get it wrong, same for the other way round however this does lead into the area of feeding an engine on your friendly PT Boat, if a boat ever ended up on any of these bodies of water there would have to be various mods. needed to keep the Packards running to their peak output, but then I really would like to see someone drag a 50 ton PT Boat up to a 10,000 ' lake just to prove a point.

Told you it would only be a minute or two!!!

And I still think it would look better with Wings!

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Will Day

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I remember the 41 boat was destined to be transported to an inland lake to be used as a gunboat, but she never made it. Don't know if the lake was at sea level or not but if she had made it, her engines would have been in such bad shape by then that speed parameters would have probably been a mute point. . .

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Lake Lanao in central Mindanao is 2300' above sea level. I've read that while the 41 boat had to be destroyed in route, her engines actually completed the trip.

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