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you know, if that Seaview were to ever breach or surface in a hurry and catch some air, those chinnes on the bow are gonna snap right off a-la a really fat guy doing a belly flop into a pool.
What?? Are you saying a vehicle design from an Irwin Allen show is IMPRACTICAL???you know, if that Seaview were to ever breach or surface in a hurry and catch some air, those chinnes on the bow are gonna snap right off a-la a really fat guy doing a belly flop into a pool.
Did Ensign Chekov just get transferred to the Seaview? :tongue:I'm just saying if the bow of a wessel is shaped like a fat guy, maybe it shouldn't be doing belly-flops in the ocean.
OMG! Someone got my joke! :hat:Did Ensign Chekov just get transferred to the Seaview? :tongue:
Then there's the stock footage of the 4-window Seaview running on the surface, sitting ridiculously high in the water and at a slightly bow-up angle. The miniature was probably filmed that way to jibe with what we saw in the observation nose, with rear-projected film of water splashing against the "glass" showing the waterline about halfway up the windows. If a submarine rode that high in the water, at least half of its interior volume would be taken up by ballast tanks.. . . If you think about the large glassed in front (less glass in the refit of course), there's already massive stresses at work on the bow area. I'd have to assume the manta fins were engineered to account for that.
Get to the refit and in addition to the front (magic) glass you've got the vast cavity of the Flying Sub bay (which may or may not be 'wet').
and of course just think of the FS sitting there when the Seaview pancakes back down into the water...
HERESY!!It is just a fictional sub in a science fiction television series!![]()
What!! You mean all those episodes weren't documentries to show us what happened in the northern hemisphere before the world wide web...It is just a fictional sub in a science fiction television series!![]()
"omething [H]in[c]k[l]ey about the Seaview design . . . "
Yeah, those later season surface running shots always bothered me, I can see IA telling the effects guys "I wanna see the windows! show the damn windows!", because if it was realistic they couldn't use the stock surface running footage for the projection screen...properly I think the 4-window would always be under the surface, ya?Then there's the stock footage of the 4-window Seaview running on the surface, sitting ridiculously high in the water and at a slightly bow-up angle. The miniature was probably filmed that way to jibe with what we saw in the observation nose, with rear-projected film of water splashing against the "glass" showing the waterline about halfway up the windows. If a submarine rode that high in the water, at least half of its interior volume would be taken up by ballast tanks.
The Proteus from Fantastic Voyage and UFO’s SkyDiver also have the same impossible displacement.
It can be a sub! Jacques-Yves Cousteau had the SP-350 Denise, famous as the "Diving saucer". Same color and launched in 1959.Now I suppose you guys are going to tell me the Flying Sub could never fly or be a sub...
and we won't even start in on SC or EB, you bunch of non-believers....