picking locks

[Tom Jennings]

On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:

> It was a survival show and the person who drove his car into the lake tried
> very hard to open the door.  He kicked it, etc, etc.  It wont budge.  He
> finally took out his centerpunch and broke the side window.  He waited for
> the water to rush into the car and then he swam out of the window. So, based
> on that scenario, I doubt it would be possible to even open it a little
> bit...

Yup, universally the case. Anyone got a calculator? Car in river.
Let's call it 10PSIG, the pressure at about 5 feet of depth. If car
door is 4 feet x 3 feet (probably VASTLY undersize), that's 1728
square inches. Times 10 pounds/sq in. Run xcalc and do the rest...