Diesel engines cannot work without oxygen, so how do diesel submarines operate when they're underwater? Their propulsion system accounts for this limitation.

While diesel engines don't need spark plugs, they do need air ventilation for proper combustion. This is a problem for vessels traveling underwater, such as submarines. Yet diesel submarines exist and ...

When the submarine Nautilus in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea needed a new air supply, it came to the surface, blew noisily like a winded whale and filled its reservoirs with two ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While diesel engines don't need spark plugs, they do need air ventilation for proper combustion. This is a problem for vessels ...