Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 276
oods of waterinto the ballast tanks. You hear the wa-ter as it gurglesand seethes into thetanks, and you hearthe displaced airwhistling out of thevalves on top. You feel the decks settle under youand realize you are going down, just as you wouldfeel this in an elevator cage lowered gradually. As… … THE SUBMARINE OCTOPUS, DIVING. continue to sink until, the ballast tanks havingbeen filled, only two inches of the deck are abovethe waters surface—the submarine is awash. 802 THE UNDER-SEAS SAILOR AND HIS BOAT [July, Briefly, what the men have done is to destroythe buoyancy of the boat by…
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