Submarines play a somewhat big part of pop culture. They have inspired countless movies, books, songs, and sandwiches. One of the most famous movies about submarines is Das Boot It takes place in 1942 in a German submarine fleet. The fleet is in the middle of the "Battle of the Atlantic". Its job is to destroy and disrupt British shipping. "Das Boot" is the story of the crew of a German U-Boat. The movie received 8.5 stars and is viewed as a classic movie by many people (Hughes).
In 1578 William bourne made the first plans for a submarine. It was the earliest known plans for a submarine. He is famous for saying, “ It is possible to make a ship or boat float that may go under the water onto the bottom and so come up again at pleasure…” …show more content…
The way that the newer subs work is either through nuclear power, diesel, or electrical. To be able to run the diesel engines through the submarines must be surfaced first. The use of the diesel engines is usually to just charge batteries for the electrical so they can go back under unless they have nuclear power. For subs to be able to submerge and surface from the water they use these ballast tanks that change their buoyancy by either filling them with water to go down or removing water to go up.While the subs are above water they can just use GPS to navigate around but while the subs are underwater they navigate using sonar but they are virtually blind because the sonar requires sound to bounce off of something which is only useful if there is a ship or other subs around. There are two different types of sonar there is aggressive and passive, aggressive is when they send out a wave and passive is when they wait for one to be sent out and basically catch …show more content…
There are also private builders that build their own subs for cheaper, one guy built a submarine that was almost able to go 1,000 feet underwater for only 50,000 dollars. If you build your own sub though you must get confirmation from a coast guard to be able to take it out into the water. In Columbia, they found two personal subs that were used for drug smuggling holding around 4 tons of cocaine and held up to 5 crew members this sub was also able to stay underwater for up to 10 days
In 1578 William bourne made the first plans for a submarine. It was the earliest known plans for a submarine. He is famous for saying, “ It is possible to make a ship or boat float that may go under the water onto the bottom and so come up again at pleasure…” …show more content…
The way that the newer subs work is either through nuclear power, diesel, or electrical. To be able to run the diesel engines through the submarines must be surfaced first. The use of the diesel engines is usually to just charge batteries for the electrical so they can go back under unless they have nuclear power. For subs to be able to submerge and surface from the water they use these ballast tanks that change their buoyancy by either filling them with water to go down or removing water to go up.While the subs are above water they can just use GPS to navigate around but while the subs are underwater they navigate using sonar but they are virtually blind because the sonar requires sound to bounce off of something which is only useful if there is a ship or other subs around. There are two different types of sonar there is aggressive and passive, aggressive is when they send out a wave and passive is when they wait for one to be sent out and basically catch …show more content…
There are also private builders that build their own subs for cheaper, one guy built a submarine that was almost able to go 1,000 feet underwater for only 50,000 dollars. If you build your own sub though you must get confirmation from a coast guard to be able to take it out into the water. In Columbia, they found two personal subs that were used for drug smuggling holding around 4 tons of cocaine and held up to 5 crew members this sub was also able to stay underwater for up to 10 days