GERMAN PROFESSOR SCOFFS AT SUBMARINE JOURNEY INTO ARCTIC
(Received December 10, 10 a.m.' BERLIN, December 9. Writing in the “Berliner Tageblatt,” Professor Oswald Flamm warns Sir Hubert Wilkins of the foil}” of attempting Polar exploration in a submarine, and describes the whole project as absurd. He asks how he is going to ? : se to the surface and re-charge his accumulators, and points out that the indicator, with which he hopes to keep in touch with the air, would be destroyed by blasting the ice cover. The other idea, of fitting the bow with a buffer, would be nonsensical. l>ecause the buffer would have to weigh 450 tons, and this would upset all calculations as to speed and trim.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 1
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