Posted on 03/27/2025 10:57:49 AM PDT by BenLurkin
No, people on a yellow submarine, live.
In other words, they live on a yellow submarine?
Yeah, definitely unclear what actually happened, but some newer articles are claiming the pilot(s) basically submerged with the hatch still open- witness recall the boarding crew on the float it operated off screaming “wait! stop!” as it started to descend.
Looking at a bunch of photos of the thing, it has a forward and aft thruster that can gimbal for vertical thrust through grates/pass through tunnels in the hull.
Of course, if it was actively submerging with both hatches open, it seems to me there’s a good chance it filled with water so fast that its inherent reserve buoyancy would’ve been gone extremely rapidly. It might’ve gotten so heavy so fast the jettisonable ballast (if any) was a moot point too quickly to matter.
It’ll be interesting to see what the cause turns out to be, but at the moment it is seeming like the pilot(s) descended with the hatches open, based on the witness accounts starting to come out. Since the thing very likely had some reserve buoyancy as a basic safety feature, it’s kinda hard to come up with an alternative explanation beyond ‘misconfigured dive’, right?
I have absolutely no clue how such a submersible would actually be operated / what the controls look like, but I do wonder if some tourist (kid maybe?) touched/actuated something they weren’t supposed to.
Replying to myself to add real quick: you’d think a “can’t dive while the frickin’ hatches are open” interlock would be part of the design...
Very unlikely. Passengers would have no access to controls of any sort. Remember, the crews want to go home too.
Ah, interesting. Left on its own, such a sealed vessel would stay afloat on the top of the water.
Water flooded in the access ports, it said, so perhaps the submerging was prematurely activated.
As I am getting older with poor-to-non-swimming skill, I might have been among the dead.
Horrifying new footage shows the moment the Sindbad submarine sank in the Red Sea whilst tourists were still boarding.
Tourists can be heard screaming as the sub descends with its hatches open - leading to the deaths of six people, including two children.Moment Sindbad submarine sinks in Red Sea as screaming tourists scramble to escape doomed vessel | 3:12
The Sun | 6.1M subscribers | 56,798 views | Mar 28, 2025
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