Date: January 19th, 2005

Section 8: pressure mounts

19 January, 2005 (12:30) | Uncategorized |

 
World War II submarine movies always have the Deep Pressure moment: the crew watching the depth gauge spin upwards, into the red.  The hull groans.  A bolt, stressed beyond endurance, sheers off and goes ricocheting loudly off the steel casing.  A pipe bursts, and the crew starts shouting in panic:
 
 
That kind of stress is now […]