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Well certainly the front shouldn't have fell off I can tell you that much.

Hopefully they'll have removed the ship from the environment.



Well certainly the front shouldn't have fell off I can tell you that much.

Water is quite heavy and dense. When you are jacking around with differential buoyancy, you're dealing with forces that can break the back of a ship. This is how torpedoes often wreak the worst damage. The overpressure can lift a part of the ship and break its back. Flooding the 1st 3rd or a ship could do something similar.




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