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Originally Posted by aklim
Why? I would think that with enough holes it too will sink.
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To a certain degree yes, sometimes it isn't that easy though. Anyone remember that freighter
New Carissa that gave the US Navy a headache trying to sink off the coast of Oregon?
"400 pounds (180 kg) of high explosives were attached to the bow and detonated.69 rounds of gunfire from the
David R. Ray's 5-inch (127 mm) deck guns then punctured the hull, and the
Bremerton fired a Mark 48 Torpedo at the underside of the ship. The bow section flooded and sank stern-first, trapping the remaining oil within"