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Re: Naval Pictures V: The Glorious Fifth
« Reply #1500 on: 17 November 2018, 06:40:42 »
Quote from: Kidd on 17 November 2018, 05:49:19
Glomar Explorer went a lot further down than that.
Yeah, but she failed and lost most of the sub - and was scrapped by Chinese breakers in 2015 anyway.  This wouldn't be any classified sneaky operation where 'well we got a little bit' is okay because it's the cold war, either.  Let them rest.

Fortunately, it's not so deep that you need top-tier submersibles to get there (compared to, say, Titanic or the Trench), so it shouldn't be too hard to get a good investigation down there and find out just what happened.
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Re: Naval Pictures V: The Glorious Fifth
« Reply #1501 on: 17 November 2018, 07:59:01 »
Its 40 odd years later now, surely we have better recovery technologies now?

Not for any mil-int purposes, but to recover remains and find out what caused the accident.
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Re: Naval Pictures V: The Glorious Fifth
« Reply #1502 on: 17 November 2018, 08:00:37 »
Sounds like they may go into her find out what blew up.  Water coming in via the snorkel wasn't good news when they originally reported it.
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Re: Naval Pictures V: The Glorious Fifth
« Reply #1503 on: 17 November 2018, 11:46:54 »
Looks like this thread had run aground on the page limit. Go launch a new one!
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Re: Naval Pictures V: The Glorious Fifth
« Reply #1504 on: 17 November 2018, 16:54:07 »
Putting the root causes in place is important, although "Don't cut your submarine in half" sounds like a likely recommendation. Things like which sections flooded and which got crushed are all evidence.

But yes, that can all be done without dishonouring the grave site.

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