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2003-05-06 East Asia

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Posted by Steve 2003-05-06 09:03 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Chlorine is readily apparent and unmistakeable. The crew would have surely reacted. Carbon monoxide is odorless -- a few on the crew may have gotten headaches before they passed out.

Is there any possibility that this boat would be carrying nerve gas weapons? Can it fire missiles?

Posted by Tom 2003-05-06 09:43:14|| 2003-05-06 09:43:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Dar---The ex-submariner was probably saying is that the engines drew combustion air from the hull since the snorkel was shut down. They pulled a good vacuum and the crew died like dogs in a vacuum chamber at the animal shelter. It was not pretty.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-05-06 12:57:16|| 2003-05-06 12:57:16|| Front Page Top

#3 I think it refers to 6 inches of mercury. Normal atmospheric pressure is 30" of mercury.

Posted by 11A5S 2003-05-06 13:20:17|| 2003-05-06 13:20:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Thanks, all! I checked on some keywords on Google after reading all this to get more info and have found some links to further enlighten myself. Sounds like rapid depressurization like this only allows about 10-15 seconds of consciousness, so if that was the situation these guys didn't have very long to react.

Posted by Dar 2003-05-06 13:46:42|| 2003-05-06 13:46:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Boy! Us submariners are a unique crowd. When we hear about these incidents, all we want to do is try to figure out what went wrong and where the material/maintenace/training deficiency is.

Most likely ORSE boards will now add contaminated emergency air systems as anomalies to drills.

If anyone hears anything about the maintenance records on the sub, make sure you post 'em.

Posted by penguin 2003-05-06 18:06:26|| 2003-05-06 18:06:26|| Front Page Top

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