Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Sub Safety (was: Underwater Anchor System)

[Ed Greany <crest25@attglobal.net>]

Doc,

Without giving away military secrets, I'll tell you why the government
doesn't do it. The same reason we used to weld the escape buoys to the
deck and paint them black over the international orange. After all, they
won't work in deep water as we already discussed. Simply put, the
subsafe systems don't include a lot of safety rescue stuff so they won't
accidently (or intentionally) be activated and give away the boats
position. Some subs have covert maneuvers and others have stragetic
positions to launch weapons during a crisis. How would it look if the
sub had a trailing balloon with or without their knowledge? At very
least, it would require releasing it somehow and that would also be a
DEAD giveaway that the boat is/was there or in the vicinity.

The best plan is continual disaster training aboard ship and drills to
perfect ones immediate and without thought automatic reaction to a
problem.

Ed

Thomas A. Rowe wrote:
> 
> Good call! Thought about that one quite a bit myself,  JPEG image
> 720x511 pixels this is how I imagine it might look.
> Don't know why the Government guys didn't think of something like this
> a long time ago, sure would save a lot of lives.
> 
> Doc