Deep wading or deep fording is a technique used by some heavy semi-amphibious vehicles to traverse water that is several metres deep - the vehicle drives on the riverbed/lakebed/seabed and uses screens or a pipe (a snorkel) that reaches above the water surface for an air supply. The technique has been used by armoured military vehicles such as tanks and armored personnel carriers. Deep fording generally implies driving through water of such a depth that the vehicle is mostly or entirely submerged by the water, sometimes to several times the height of the vehicle itself, as well as a sealed crew compartment, complete with air supply for the crew. This makes it different from the less extreme "wading" done by many off-road vehicles which are simply fitted with a snorkel that is higher than the normal engine air intake, roughly level with the top of the cab. In these cases, the crew compartment is not watertight, and the snorkel provides air only for the engine. Thus maximum height is limited by the crew's need to breathe, and very rarely completely submerges the vehicle.
In contrast, lighter, true-amphibious vehicles that float on the water surface are not limited by the depth of the water.
Deepwading or deep fording is a technique used by some heavy semi-amphibious vehicles to traverse water that is several metres deep - the vehicle drives...
with air-breathing internal combustion engines, sometimes allow limited deepwading capability for river crossing or amphibious landing operations, particularly...
equipment was located on the rear decking in a position originally used for deep-wading equipment. The Sd.Kfz. 268 used FuG 7 and FuG 5 radios with a two-metre...
Island with armored support from a platoon of M3A5 Lees equipped with deep-wading kits belonging to the US Army's 193rd Tank Battalion. After British Commonwealth...
capable of deepwading for river crossings and amphibious landing, the Bedford Giraffe was developed as insurance against the shallow wading kits under...
River Monsters episode "Vampires of the Deep". In 2016, while filming on a remote island near Australia, Wade and his crew stumbled upon a man who had...
amphibious assaults such as the D-day landings. No provision was made for deepwading, before the design went into production; as a result, the A30 could not...
vehicles, those with snow chains or snow tires, or those capable of deepwading or amphibious operation. Most disconnected settlements have local road...
role in close cooperation with infantry units, but in the Battle of France deep independent armoured penetrations were executed by the Germans, a technique...
April 1942, Vauxhall stopped producing new tanks. Together with Broom & Wade (at High Wycombe) they started rebuilding earlier tanks; about 700 of the...
following vehicles to cross loose sand on a beach. The raised boxes at the rear of the vehicle are radiator extensions to allow deepwading in water....
amphibious use prior to Sea Lion's cancellation. The Tauchpanzer or deep-wading tank (also referred to as the U-Panzer or Unterwasser Panzer) was a standard...
is displayed in India, at the Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar, India. Deepwading (driving a tank on the seabed using a snorkel) T-37A tank – World War...
a crew escape path, but it can be stored on the tank. Some civilian deepwading vehicles achieve their capability by means of legs or stilts to raise...
vehicle. Panzer III Ausf. M - Minor modifications of the ausf. L such as deep-wading exhaust and Schürzen side-armour panels. Panzer III Ausf. N - Infantry...
only recommended for experienced hikers, and includes potentially waist-deepwading through a water outlet across a logjam, to the east shore of Delta Lake...
began clearing the deck and remained there until the water was waist deep, wading through it with outstretched arms waking up the men who were still asleep...
Y-shaped exhaust outlet (an early variant-model of the Churchill) for deep-wading and amphibious operations which was used at the Dieppe Raid, along with...
impractical, and the vehicle is not fitted with an NBC protection system or deepwading equipment. The JGSDF started studies on a new tank design with Mitsubishi...
crossed by amphibious vehicles capable of swimming, or vehicles capable of deepwading after preparation, or by constructing a water crossing, and thus creating...
by a strange animal while drinking in water only one metre (3 ft 3 in) deep. Wade theorised that the creature would have had to weigh 91–136 kilograms (200–300 lb)...
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