Sub sinks

[Manatee Diver]

Rickover is looking down in disgust.

 

[Dan]

At this point best to just snorkel while in Egypt.

Even snorkeling is not safe there.

Thread 'Russian citizen mauled to death by tiger shark off Egypt's Red Sea coast in rare attack'

Jun 8, 2023

Russian citizen mauled to death by tiger shark off Egypt's Red Sea coast in rare attack
CAIRO — A Russian man died after being mauled by a shark on Thursday off one of Egypt’s Red Sea resorts, Egyptian and Russian authorities said.
Egypt’s Environment Ministry said the man was killed after being attacked by a tiger shark in the waters near the city of Hurghada. Authorities closed off a 74-kilometer (46-mile) stretch of the coastline, announcing it will remain off-limits until Sunday.

The ministry later said it had caught the shark and was examining it in a laboratory to try and determine...

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[Capt Jim Wyatt]

This is from a Voyager submarine passenger cabin. Looks very similar to the one that sank in Egypt. These subs carried 48 passengers and 3 crew to 100 meters.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

Me at the helm of one of the Voyager submarines.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

Me towing a Voyager submarine into Honolulu harbor.

 

[BoundForElsewhere]

inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

i do hope their souls can find peace after such terror they must have felt at their last moments.

 

[runsongas]

@arew+4 likely a lot of deferred/skipped maintenance during covid due to lack of money that is coming back to bite with a vengeance

 

[BoltSnap]

Me at the helm of one of the Voyager submarines.

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You were good-looking back then. What happened to you?

 

[MB NZ]

A very sad and scary incident. I used to see a tourist sub when I was guiding in Cyprus. At the time, I was doing a lot of deep air and single tank decompression diving, but would never have got in one of those things!

 

[Endler's]

Ukraine?