UK Daily Mail
Fifty-five Chinese sailors are feared dead after their nuclear submarine apparently got caught in a trap intended to ensnare British sub-surface vessels in the Yellow Sea.
According to a secret UK report the seamen died following a catastrophic failure of the submarine’s oxygen systems which poisoned the crew.
The captain of the Chinese PLA Navy submarine ‘093-417’ is understood to be among the deceased, as are 21 other officers. More
Whoops!
FJB
I hate it when that happens.
That’s a helluva way to test your own trap.
Well, at least now they know the trap works – on their submarines…
Does it work like one of those Chinese finger trap things?
Three red pegs if playing Battleship, right?
“This resulted in systems failures that took six hours to repair and surface the vessel. The onboard oxygen system poisoned the crew after a catastrophic failure.’
They got the sub to the surface, but everybody died? Or one or two lived to tell the tale? Weird.
“If they were trapped on the net system and the submarine’s batteries were running flat (plausible) then eventually the air purifiers and air treatment systems could have failed.”
They just said it was a nuclear sub. This is not Das Boot we’re talking about. Too much “if” and “might have” and “could have” in this report, and the poetic justice storyline is too pitch perfect.
And given how much Britain has brazenly lied its ass off about Ukraine in the last two years, I’m going to need a little more evidence before I swallow this tale, which conveniently falls into the “hard to prove it didn’t happen” category.
Sorry, media and military, you made me this way.
Does not pass the smell test.
Somewhere up there, Hyman Rickover is chuckling.
File under, “The Immutable Law of Unintended Circumstances”.
Bhang tingh hao
22 officers out of a crew of 55. Too many chiefs and not enough indians. (can you say that anymore?)
Ho Ree Sheet
One hour later, they were trapped again.
Speaking as a submariner here:
There is just so much about this story that makes no sense!
Admittedly, I’m not an expert on Chinese nuclear submarines, but for the kind of damage these reports are putting out to be true, the sub would have to be as brittle as paper mache’.
How does a submarine getting entangled in a chain and anchor trap cause the “oxygen system” to fail?
How does any submarine not suffering a fire or catostrophic flooding only have enough air aboard for 6 hours?
Too much doesn’t make sense!
“22 officers, 7 officer cadets, 9 petty officers, 17 sailors.”
29 officers/officer cadets over 26 petty officers/sailors?
No wonder it was a cluster-fuck … uhh … chinese fire drill.
I wonder if they all spoke the same dialect – or were the 29 just screaming chink gibberish at the 26? Everyone afraid to show a little initiative, as that would be grounds for a court-martial in a coercive system.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
I designed the trap for the “Hunley.”
And the trap for Billy Bourne’s spherical submarine.