i mean, isn't it a submarine, after all?
Can’t believe China managed to perfectly copy an OceanGate submarine.
I've been in the navy for over 15 years, so yeah, I know better...
But... Isn't it supposed to do that? 👀
Sir, the submarine dived perfectly!
Excellent, how did it fare when it came back up?
Up...? Uh...
Up? That's an option?
The front fell off.
I only came her for this comment, thank you!
The possibility of being stationed in a submarine is one of the many reasons I did not choose to join the Navy; it's a nightmare scenario. This sort of incident makes me feel sorry for Chinese submarine crews - it's a bad situation made worse by destroying any shred of confidence in the engineers.
Not sure about other countries, but America's submarine force is volunteer. You wouldn't be forced onto a submarine.
I was on a sub and I chose it because being instantaneously crunched sounded better than starving in a life boat.
Read about the Kursk. Instantly crushed doesn’t always happen. Sometimes you get stuck in a compartment for six hours and slowly asphyxiate.
To be honest, if it needs to sink (uncontrolled), the dock would be my preferred location. Before I board it, best case scenario.
Absolutely. I mean, people drown in shallow water all the time; if it flooded, it wouldn't matter if it were 20m or 200m; you'd still be dead.
But it was a best case for China, since recovery was about as easy as it could possibly be.
Also, in dock, there's a better chance that it wasn't fully manned, or that it didn't flood and they could get folks out. I'm no submarineologist, but it's difficult to imagine a case where a submarine sank at dock without flooding, though, so my guess is some people died.
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