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Old 2nd Dec 2017, 19:06
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Originally Posted by Union Jack
A very sad and sobering, albeit unconfirmed, account of what is believed to have occurred in the final moments of the loss of the ARA SAN JUAN will be found at:

https://thenewstalkers.com/community...of-a-submarine

Incidentally, for the benefit of those conjecturing on the relative calm to be found when a submarine dives to avoid extreme surface conditions, I have experienced a 26 degree role to either side in a nuclear submarine - at 500 feet keel depth. I can't say where or when, but I was certainly very glad not to be nearer the surface.

Jack
That report has a bit too much pseudo-mathematical waffle to ring true to me. If the report was authoritative, I would not expect such precision about the collapse depth of the implosion, nor a figure of "1800mph" for the "ram-effect" of an implosion.

Moreover, that class of submarine would probably have a collapse depth of more than 1275ft.

I'm a bit sceptical about the expertise of the source of that article.
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