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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Sailor lights flare inside submarine

Collins class submarineA submerged Collins class submarine and a female sailor had a lucky escape when she accidentally ignited a signal flare.

HMAS Waller was submerged off the WA coast, conducting anti-submarine exercises with the frigate HMAS Toowoomba and the replenishment vessel HMAS Sirius, at 9pm on Wednesday when the accident occurred.

The sailor was loading a green pyrotechnic flare into a tube in the ship's office when it went off, seriously burning her arms. Signal flares are routinely used by submerged submarines to communicate with surface ships.

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