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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Submariners fought for hour to save trapped sailors, inquest hears

Paul McCann (left) and Anthony Huntrod (right)Sailors fought for nearly an hour to break into a submarine compartment to save two trapped crewmen following an explosion under the Arctic ice, an inquest has heard.

But with doors buckled from a detonation apparently caused by faulty equipment they could not force an entry in time to save their comrades

Over the next six weeks the Sunderland coroner will hear evidence of defective oxygen-making briquettes that exploded during a training exercise on board the hunter-killer submarine HMS Tireless submerged in waters off Alaska.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete12/2/09 03:19

    It appears that the submarine service of the UK Royal Navy suffers from appalling safety standards.

    Pete

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