PC : Could the Carthaginians have developed Turtle Ships ?

I was listening to a recent podcast on the Korean turtle ships of the 15th and 16th century and the hosts made a point about how one major reason why the ships were so successful was because the 'turtle shell' prevented Japanese marines who were experienced in hand to hand combat from boarding. This struck me as analogous to the situation between the Carthaginians and Romans during the Punic war where the Romans who were inferior seamen used the corvus boarding bridge to easily board and overwhelm Carthaginian crews. Could the Carthaginians have developed ships similar to the Korean turtle ships to combat this Roman tactic ?
 
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Assuming the carthaginians used bronze rather than iron you still have the problem of the ship design, the Koreans built ships to sail on the ocean (admittedly it is not a wild as the Adlantic but the Pacific can throw up some sizable storms when it tries).

The Med is a mill pond in comparison so the type of ship is totally different. I am not sure they would have the time to develop the new ships given the short amount of time between the Romans beating them at sea and the end of the Punic Wars.
 
Yeah, probably unlikely given the conditions but still amazing to consider how the Romans would have reacted and how it may have shifted the odds of the naval war.
 
Assuming the carthaginians used bronze rather than iron you still have the problem of the ship design, the Koreans built ships to sail on the ocean (admittedly it is not a wild as the Adlantic but the Pacific can throw up some sizable storms when it tries).

The Med is a mill pond in comparison so the type of ship is totally different. I am not sure they would have the time to develop the new ships given the short amount of time between the Romans beating them at sea and the end of the Punic Wars.

Well it doesn't need to be an identical design though. All you need is a covered deck with something on top of that would prevent fires and dissuade boarders from breaking in.I'm not a naval architect but it does seem to me like it would be in the realm of possibility especially considering all the crazy designs that the Hellenistic ship builders (who shared the same basic shipbuilding tools as the Carthaginians) were undertaking.

Fair point w.r.t. the short time between the wars. WI instead of a long drawn out first Punic war, you have a completely different build-up to war with no Mamertines but instead a slow gradual cold war culminating in the the Romans going for an early killing blow that sinks a good chunk of the Carthaginian navy and manages to besiege Carthage. Lets say this ends with a humiliating peace treaty for the Carthaginians. In the subsequent post war rethinking phase you could have a Carthage that is willing to experiment in ship design so that they won't be humiliated again.
 
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