"NONSENSICAL IDEA."
Wilkins' Plan Of Exploration By Submarine. GERMAN'S CRITICISM. (Received 11 a.m.) ' BERLIN, December 9. Writing in the "Berliner Tageblatt" Professor Oswald -Flamm warns -Sir Hubert Wilkins of the folly of attempting polar exploration in a submarine. He describes the whole project as absurd and asks how Sir Hubert is going to riseji to the surface to recharge his accumulators. He points out that the indicator with which the explorer hopes to keep touch with the air would be destroyed by the blasting of the ice cover. The other idea of fitting the bow with a buffer would be nonsensical because the buffer would have to weigh 450 tons and would upset all calculations as to speed and trim.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 7
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