Re: [MV] that's some deep water there fella...

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri Feb 06 2004 - 14:45:06 PST


At 5:36 PM -0500 2/6/04, m35products wrote:
>I, for one, would love to see demonstrated the "totally submerged" feature.
>I imagine that the driver would have trouble breathing after a few miles.
>The exhaust would make pretty bubbles, but the little adapter that makes air
>out of seaweed and salt water must still be under development, or classified
>top-secret.

Someone posted an url to a video of an M211 (I think) doing some deep
water fording. The truck was all the way under water (top of the
windshield was below water) and the driver had a SCUBA kit and mask
on for his own air supply. I'd post it here, but it's 5.3 megabytes.

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