{"id":45003,"date":"2019-01-25T06:00:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T19:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=45003"},"modified":"2019-01-24T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:26:12","slug":"is-pressurised-submarine-escape-training-really-too-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/is-pressurised-submarine-escape-training-really-too-dangerous\/","title":{"rendered":"Is pressurised submarine escape training really too dangerous?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Royal Australian Navy has stopped its longstanding program of using pressurised submarine escape training to teach crews how to exit a stricken vessel. The decision to stop submariners practising escapes using a tower containing a 22-metre-high column of water would not have been taken lightly, so let\u2019s consider the issues that would (or should) have been considered.<\/p>\n

The navy says that practising this technique is too risky and that it\u2019s introducing alternative escape training.<\/p>\n

The loss of a submarine grips the world\u2019s attention like few other accidents. Here are some examples of peacetime incidents in which submariners survived the initial accident:<\/p>\n