Critical about Justin Scott's book "The man who loved the Normandie"

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

This is the writing about the book, what is made by the writer, who is not so well known. "The man who loved the Normandie" is the book about the agents, who fought in the New York, and other was German code-named "Otter" and other was Military Architect. The frame is that super-passenger ship "Normandie" was burned in the harbor of New York, and Agent code-named "Otter" wanted to make the base for midget submarine in the wreck. I sometimes have thought that this "Otter" have mistakenly translated from German world "Seehund", what means "Otter", but the names are normally the thing, what is not translated.


But this is the thing, what makes this book a little bit unbelievable. If that "Otter" wanted to sabotage those ships, what was left from New York to Europe, must this man only use the combat scuba-diving technologies, and put the mines under the ships bottoms. When we are thinking about the thing, that could be useful in those raids, that could be the underwater tank, what would be equipped with the pressure system, that would keep the water out from inside of that device, where those agents would store their equipment like mines, and where they could hide after the missions.

And the hatch to the tank must be bottom because that makes traffic in and out from that diving bell possible. The equipment what those operators would need could be brought by submarines and store in that underwater station. The air could be kept clean by throwing it thru the active carbon filters. That kind of underwater station can be very simple to build. And the reason, why I write about this is that the most advanced things are actually quite simple. When we are thinking about the small size scuba-diving equipment, we do not normally think about one of the most advanced and unique inventions.


That is small size breathing equipment, that is called the "Draeger's lung". The steel cylinder is filled with the rubber ball and to the tube of that thing is installed the active carbon filter, what would help to keep air able to breathe. Inside that system can be the small electric motor, that uses the piston, what helps the ball surge and dwarf. That happens because the steel cylinder is a room for air, and when the piston moves upside down in the cylinder it would cause the breath.


Sometimes there are plannings, that that equipment has been used in tests of PFC (Poly Fluoride Carbonate) breathing system, where the lungs are filled with liquid PFC-chemical. The oxygen can be transformed to that chemical from the water by artificial gills. That system could be used like conventional scuba diving equipment, but it can be installed to the thorax surgically. That thing allows the diver to live under the sea as long he wants.


Of course, this is the very interesting theory, but those men would not need to eat raw fish, because the scuba-diver could use underwater torches for cooking fishes and vegetables at the bottom of the ocean. But who would actually allow putting that kind equipment surgically to the body? Of course to the throat could be put the vent, what allows those men to breathe in the dry land. This writing is only fiction and please don't take it seriously.