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Not to run constantly but as a backup safety system it seems reasonable.
I think they still use chlorate candles as an emergency measure.
Not to run constantly but as a backup safety system it seems reasonable.
I think they still use chlorate candles as an emergency measure.
I think oxygen generators (using seawater) are uncommon on diesel/electric subs, because electrolysis is massively inefficient.
That's sad. RIP. I'm surprised that submarines being naval vessels can shut down like this. This isn't an airplane ffs.
No idea what they. Show i saw said they use CO2 scrubbers but nothing that makes oxygen. Well nothing they mentioned.
Is that a physically big tech or just energy intensive?
That's a tragic way to go.
Rest in peace brave stewards of the south Pacific.
Argentina is in the Atlantic.
If you lose power generation, you sink. If you lose the backup.... You stay sunk
You're right.
I was thinking of Chile and Ecuador and Columbia and then jumped over the coast to the Pacific rim.
That's what happens when you hang around Hong Kong too long!
Chile also has subs, but Chile aint broke, so i believe they will be well maintained.
I thought there would be some kind of independent system for distress calls.
You would think that they would have some type of distress beacon they could deploy while submerged.
The sub does have emergency beacons, which haven't been activated , which means their systems probably went FUBAR right after they went under knowingly with short-circuiting batteries.
Honestly, if I'm the captain of a, Argentine diesel-electric sub with confirmed fucked-up batteries in home waters, I would just stay on the surface and sail all the way back to port on the fully-functional diesel engines, rather than submerge and play Russian roulette like the Argentine Navy guidelines instructs me to.