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PearliePoo2

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3. Once the hull is breached

Reply to Old and In the Way (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 15, 2012, 04:34 PM

Jan 2012

and the ship is taking on water, any inherent list will be the side or end that the water rushes to.
I imagine the ship hit the rock, her hull was ripped open, she settled on the rock with a list and the water filled all the voids as it "water-falled" with gravity's help.

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