silent running
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With good design you can mitigate a lot of flooding issues.
On the other hand, the meg is not capable of going places the sidewinder can go. The sidewinder is ridiculously light (especially compared to a meg and I have both), can be packed in small dry containers and hauled through sumps, doesnt have a solenoid or even batteries to fail. Way smaller profile too. At a price of having terrible tolerance to flooding.
Yes, as we both noted, RB design is a series of trade offs.
The Meg video illustrates that OTS designs are inherently more flood tolerant with the CLs acting as water traps in front of the scrubber. I personally think there are too many compromises involved in trying to make the scrubber itself more flood tolerant, aside from specifying a radial to begin with. To me best WOB trumps all other concerns, breathing properly is the dive, a scrubber flood is something very rare. How many partial or a full loop floods happen at depth?