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Old 02-07-2011, 08:11 AM   #868
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Originally Posted by Stitchawl View Post
I don't know how he did it, but were it me, I'd try to fill the hull with water and let it freeze, so the pressure would be equal. That seems to work in my mind, but I really don't know how it would work in reality.

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Close enough to win - oh over-educated one.

He sank his ship and moved his crew onto shore for the winter. In the spring they had to manually hack the ice off the ship and re-float it -- the ship was fine but this was so labor intensive, it was never repeated.

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