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Chlorate (oxygen) candles have been used for years aboard
subs and more recently by the Russians aboard Mir and the International Space
Station (both of which have had serious fires from contaminated candles).
Spoke with a British Cox’n off of a sub shortly after the accident and he
confirmed that the fatalities were due to exploding contaminated candles. The candles are expensive and give off a lot of heat
while they burn. The slightest contamination with oil cause an explosion. R/Jay Respectfully, Jay K. Jeffries Andros Is., Bahamas If you are in a
shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top . . . that comes along makes
a fortuitous life preserver. But this is not to say that the best way to
design a life preserver is in the form of a piano top. I think that we are
clinging to a great many piano tops in accepting yesterday’s fortuitous
contrivings. -- Buckminister Fuller -----Original Message----- An article on the two people who died on HMS Tireless.
Seems oil contaminated an "oxygen candle" causing it to
explode when it was used in a drill: http://www.shponline.co.uk/article.asp?pagename=news&article_id=7700
Another article for early with more details about the
candles: http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsub/articles/20070329.aspx
I'm not planning on using "oxygen candles" for
emergency oxygen. But it would we an easy way of increasing the amount of
oxygen a submarine carries. Cheers, Ian. |