#Submarine - Could a supersonic submarine speed through the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco to Shanghai in less than two hours?
The Chinese engineers behind some remarkable new sub-sea technology seem to think so, as the South China Morning Post reports.
Their 'supercaptivating vehicle' design uses gas jets to envelope a vessel inside an air bubble that severely reduces the friction or drag experiences by objects moving through water.
In practice, the technology was developed by the Soviet military to send a torpedo rocketing through the water at an incredible 370km/h.
In theory, the same principles could be adapted to fit a much larger vessel such as a passenger submarine and send it zooming through the depths at a barely fathomable 5,800km/h – the speed of sound under water – and cut a transpacific trip to just 100 minutes.
The South China Morning Post has much more on the story HERE.
