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re: Missing Submarine
Posted on 5/2/21 at 7:02 pm to terd ferguson
Posted on 5/2/21 at 7:02 pm to terd ferguson
I’m not sure I buy the underwater wave theory. They were sitting at periscope depth for a torpedo exercise. From that position either flooding in through the torpedo tubes or depth excursion causing water influx through the snorkel mast seem more likely than a natural cause sucking the sub below crush depth.
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Posted on 5/2/21 at 7:44 pm to BRIllini07
Me neither. In oceanography they're called near-inertial waves with the main velocity occurring in the horizontal plane. Google says the Java Sea can have them up to 2 meters a second or nearly 4 knots. The highest near-inertial wave vertical velocity I could find, assuming one could force a sub deeper, was 0.6 meters per second about 1 knot. Not near enough force to drive a controlled sub deeper. Near-inertial waves also decay with depth.
The statement about under water waves being a suspected cause was likely a face saving measure. Otherwise, in naval history I'd expect more occurrences, catastrophic or not, would have been reported by different navies world wide.
The statement about under water waves being a suspected cause was likely a face saving measure. Otherwise, in naval history I'd expect more occurrences, catastrophic or not, would have been reported by different navies world wide.
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