So...how did the torpedo's fire?


Something I rememberd from when I was a kid when I started watching the DVDs was that I always wondered what the torpedo tubes looked like in the Seaview.

We always saw the torpedo's loaded with the nose going to the rear of the sub, yet, when they were fired, they always came out of the front. There must have been a wicked u-turn in the hull to get them pointed in the right direction.

Then again, there's probably the same relationship to the Flying Sub hatch. In the obseveration nose, the hatch is only about 3 feet from the hull of the ship, but somehow it leads right down into the Flying Sub, which has it's hatch about 15 feet further back.

Admiral Nelson must have had some help from the Timelords when he was building the Seaview.

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Yes...I too noticed as a kid who things didn't jive with the interior of the Seaview vs. the exterior. The insides were WAY too big to match the exterior of the sub. Yeah, Irwin and Co. obviously didn't really care too much about the dimensional problems of the subs -- only that they looked cool.

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In the pilot of LIS, the Jupiter 2 (Gemini 12 as it was called) only had one deck. The Robinsons and West were put in suspended animation for the whole (100 year) trip. They had no Robot or Smith for that matter.

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I remember building a plastic model of the Seaview as a kid and I always wanted the internal diagrams of it but could never find any. But one thing I remember is seeing the Seaview diagram hanging in Admiral Nelsons quarters but could never see them properly to make out what was what on them. Does anyone know if there is a deck by deck layout of the Seaview.

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