Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "Something TERRIFYING Happened To This Submarine" video.

  1. You mean something like... *"On the following date(s) the Royal Navy will be carrying out training at the following co-ordinates. PS. If you are Russian please forget you read this"*
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  2.  @stubbyhawk1  Isn't Thresher the entire reason SUBSAFE was created? Thresher was horrible, but those deaths were not in vain as submarine practices throughout NATO, and likely beyond, are 100x safer than they were pre-Thresher.
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  3. The "ship travelling next to it" would be more concerned by the Megalodon that had come up with the methane.
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  4. Why on Earth would anyone in a perfectly good sub trigger an emergency blow? Correct, the sub was not perfectly good and neither of us knows why.
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  5.  @gregorturner4753  You've mixed up two disasters there. HMS Truculent sank in the Thames estuary but the majority of fatalities were hypothermia caused by the crew abandoning the sub before help arrived. HMS Thetis sank in Liverpool docks and over 100 crew and shipbuilders suffocated when the second person to use the one-man airlock panicked and drowned leaving no other way for people to escape safely.
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  6. So long as you don't believe that all of them are caused by RN subs, there have been nets snagged and trawlers sunk in areas the Royal Navy don't operate, also at least two trawlers have lost nets in British or Irish waters thanks to USN subs operating with full permission of the local government. We're just surrounded by very rich fishing grounds and although NATO subs try to be as careful as they can it has been suspected that Russian subs simply don't care what they bump into when snooping as they know full well the British public would just blame British or American subs.
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  7. Allowing the one person who had lived and worked with Thresher's nuclear reactor for almost two years to skip the boat's first sea trial was just one more in the line of errors that caused the loss of the sub.
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  8. All of what you just did, that's called speculation.
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  9. We've also had HMS Leviathan though as yet there hasn't been HMS Kraken.
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  10. He never said he was covering every sub disaster though...
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  11.  @garyreid6165  It also happened in the TV show Vigil which is set aboard a submarine, although the premise of the show is about espionage a trawler being sunk by a submarine plays a part in the show. Incidentally it happens in the exact same location, 'submarine alley' in the firth of Clyde.
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  12. Eddie Large - yes, appropriate name - reached more than 30 stone at one point literally tipping the scales unless there was an adolescent elephant on the other side.
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  13. He was found with a hastily scrawled note that said "I tried to break the window with a hamm.. ARG!"
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  14. Russian subs have an escape pod that can fit the entire crew in it, It's a large vertical cylinder that seals once everyone is crammed in and then launches upwards to the surface like a ballistic missile. They have never been used though as the only submarine lost since they started being included in the design was Kursk and a lifeboat in the middle of the submarine is no use when the only survivors are trapped in the tail of the submarine. When asked why US subs don't have a 'lifeboat' an admiral once reportedly said "We prefer to spend the extra money making the submarine safe to begin with".
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  15. GIBRALTARRR!!!
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  16. 2.5, not 2 to 5. Also a water cutter only cuts at point blanc range, lift it a few inches off the target and it just forms a cloud of spray.
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  17. What does "well within a safe crush depth" mean? It sounds like an oxymoron.
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