Times chanced and that
brought also good news.
A few months ago there
was a submarine escape exercise in the Northsea. Both NATO (French, US, Dutch
etc.) and Russian navy’s contributed.
The Dutch submariners ,
whose Walrus class was struck on 140 meters for exercise, were surprised by the
speed of the Russian rescue.
Should be good news for
submariners from every navy!
Regards, Emile
Van: owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org [mailto:owner-personal_submersibles@psubs.org] Namens David Bartsch
Verzonden: zondag 9 november 2008
20:00
Aan: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Onderwerp: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST]
More sad news from our Russian comrades
Joe,
I once saw a chart of the oceans of the world showing known Soviet
ship wrecks (I think it was in a National Geographic) and was amazed at how
many accidents littered the oceans floors. I could myself recall a few...the
missile sub that caught fire off the Caralinas, a diesel boat that sank
north of England, the Kirsk, and a few others.
It would seem that even after turning into a "free"
society, the ability to remove itself from the old way of doing things is slow
to change. Russia did not have a public to answer to for far too long and the
funding for Naval construction was not tightly questioned.
As a submariner, I had an interest in our counterpart and how
these men lived and were treated. As Jay pointed out, safety and creature
comforts were thought of last if at all. The submarines in this Navy were
warships above all, and men somehow stayed aboard them as best they could.
David Bartsch
From: bottomgun@mindspring.com
To: personal_submersibles@psubs.org
Subject: RE: [PSUBS-MAILIST] More sad news from our Russian comrades
Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 09:23:23 -0500
Joe,
The Russians place a
lower value on safety and the value of human life then we do. On top of
that, their maintenance of equipment is abysmal. As a consequence they
have many more tragic accidents then we do. Instead of engineering out
hazards they live with them. In our case, many times we will
over-engineer a system on the side of conservatism.
R/Jay
Respectfully,
Jay K. Jeffries
Andros Is., Bahamas
As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in
excess of the demand.
-Josh Billings
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