Re: Poseidon Adventure remake: could it work?

Anthony Buckland <buckland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> Critics have been harsh about the mechanism for inverting
> the Poseidon in the TV remake. But, oh experts in science
> in fiction, would it work? SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN
> THE TV MOVIE BUT INTEND TO .
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> .In the movie, the Poseidon is overturned, not by a tsunami
> in shallow water, as
> in the original, but as a result of a terrorist plot. The
> plot is to blow two holes
> in the hull near the stern, while wiping out the crew
> members who might do something about the flooding and
> turning off all the systems that might do something
> automatically (from the freshly depopulated bridge). Only
> one hole
> is blown, on the port side. The ship carries merrily on at
> high cruising speed,
> and floods preferentially on one side due to the
> non-detonation starboard. In due course, it rolls 180
> degrees, stops, stabilizes upside down, and ceases
> flooding since the hole is now out of the water.
> Eventually, secondary flooding from the parts of the ship
> now below water, coupled one supposes with air loss through
> the hole, sinks it, but not before the same type of
> reach-the-way-out adventures, with many scenes repeated
> verbatim, as in the original.
>
> Would it work?
>

No.

Ship design has improved since the Titanic.

On each side (20% of width) you have a series of watertight
compartments that provide stability. The IMO requirement is that
the ship not sink/incline enough to submerge the deck at the top
of the WT compartments if TWO adjacent compartments are flooded.

So you are going to put a hole in one compartment -- it will
fill and the ship will list, but not capsize or allow
freeflooding.

So what you will get is the ship listing to one side with the
stern lower and the bow raised.

Now if you were doing this while passing through a
NorthAtlantic/North Pacific winter storm with waves of 90 feet
you may have significant problems.
.

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