Comment Re:how hard can it be? (Score 1) 165
I don't understand your comment -- It seems confused to me, perhaps you could explain it?
I don't know where the "really flexible hulls" assumption comes from. Could you explain this, I have no idea how it might relate to my explanation? Are you referring to "springs?" As I said earlier, it doesn't matter if the intermediate pressurizing occurs with something flexible like springs, or inflexible like water.
The rest of your comment appears to be very confused. First, if there was a vacuum chamber inside a sub, the pressure inside the sub would not be the same--There is now a vacuum inside the sub! That means that the pressure would be 0, which would be an unsurvivable change for any human occupants that might have been in there.
Second, your second to last sentence is quite amusing. You are saying that because the pressure on the inside is the same, the pressure on the outside stays the same? Do you really think this is logical? Do you think that if you blow up a balloon, take it 1000ft deep, it will have the same pressure on the inside? Do you think it will be the same size?