Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float 326
New submitter home-electro.com writes "In the era of total CAD and CAM, is it even possible to come up with a fundamentally flawed design ? Turns out, yes. This a fascinating engineering SNAFU. Spain's newly built submarine is 100 tons too heavy, which means it is unable to float. 'Unfortunately for the Spainards, Quartz reports that they have already sunk the equivalent of $680 million into the Isaac Peral, and a total of $3 billion into the entire quartet of S-80 class submarines. If Spain hopes to salvage its submarines, it must either find some weight that can be trimmed from the current design or lengthen the ship to accommodate the excess weight, The Local notes. Though the latter option is more feasible, it is expected to cost Spain an extra $9.7 million per meter.'"
I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Some screen doors will help lighten up the load. A lot thinner than regular doors.
Re: I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever floats your boat dude
Perfect submarine - never above ... (Score:3, Funny)
Well, this is the perfect submarine - permanently under water.
The spanish armada (Score:4, Funny)
...still sinking after all these years.
At this point (Score:5, Funny)
Re:lithium (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Spain should have... (Score:4, Funny)
They should have kept their mouths shut and sold the finished product to North Korea.
Re:The spanish armada (Score:4, Funny)
"sunken patrimony"
Fathers who died in shipwrecks?
Re:I know... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where were the checks and balances? (Score:5, Funny)
Global Warming!
As the oceans get warmer, the heat gets transferred to the submarine, making it larger. Larger things are heavier and then poof too heavy. It sinks.
Really easy when you understand the physics.
Re:I know... (Score:2, Funny)
1 out of 2 is not bad! At least they got the sinking part working. They just need to combine the design with the unsinkable ship... RMS Titanic.
Re:at least they're trying... (Score:4, Funny)
You really think they cost that much? How much do you think it costs Canadians to fund conspiracies like a massive Maple Syrup Shortage, or the Hockey deficiency in Asia, eh?