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55 Presumed Dead After China's Nuclear Sub Gets Caught In Trap Meant For US, Its Allies: Reports
IBT ^ | 10/5/2023 | initha Jacob

Posted on 10/07/2023 6:23:55 AM PDT by logi_cal869

A Chinese nuclear submarine got caught in a trap intended for U.S. or British submarines in the Yellow Sea, killing 55 people on board, multiple reports claimed. However, Beijing has not yet released any information to corroborate or deny the catastrophic accident.

The news outlets, citing a British intelligence report, said 22 officers, seven officer cadets, nine petty officers and 17 sailors were killed in an accident involving a Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) nuclear submarine on Aug. 21.

International Business Times could not independently verify the information.

If true, the incident "reflects poorly on the PLA Navy's capabilities," Niranjan Oak, a research analyst at Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, told IBT.

PLA Navy submarine 093-417 was reportedly involved in the accident. The Shang-class submarine got caught in seabed defenses that were installed by Chinese forces to trap U.S. and allied submarines. It ran out of oxygen, killing 55 on board, the reports said.

"Our understanding is death caused by hypoxia (lack of oxygen) due to a system fault on the submarine," British intelligence officials reportedly said. "The submarine hit a chain and anchor obstacle used by the Chinese navy to trap U.S. and allied submarines. This resulted in systems failures that took six hours to repair and surface the vessel. The onboard oxygen system poisoned the crew after a catastrophic failure."

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; chinkinthearmor; fail; nuclearsubmarine; nyuknyuknyuk; sinking
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To: logi_cal869
22 officers, seven officer cadets, nine petty officers and 17 sailors

I'm surprised it didn't roll over from being top-heavy as soon as it left port.

41 posted on 10/07/2023 10:00:41 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: SaveFerris

The submarine surely wouldn’t have ran out of oxygen if it’s a Shang class vessel, and therefore nuclear. Its machinery could keep on supplying its crew with oxygen for *years.* Maybe one of China’s own mines blew it up? Or it got tangled up and sank past crush depth into the deep ocean abyss? What are the chances its reactor(s) malfunctioned, taking its oxygen generating equipment offline? Disasters sometimes result from more than one system failing at the same time, aka “Murphy’s Law.”


42 posted on 10/07/2023 10:17:53 AM PDT by Big Brother Go to Hell
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To: KarlInOhio

Some kind of a shake-out voyage, or training?


43 posted on 10/07/2023 10:25:45 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12

Your opinion and judgement means nothing to me.


44 posted on 10/07/2023 11:32:09 AM PDT by MarMema ("Legitimate Military Targets" (Putin))
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To: logi_cal869
"55 Presumed Hoped Dead After ...."

Fixed it for them.

45 posted on 10/07/2023 11:40:07 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: MarMema

“””Your opinion and judgement means nothing to me.”””

Now read your post 38.


46 posted on 10/07/2023 11:46:23 AM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: logi_cal869

Yes, entangling a slow-moving submarine is technically possible.

But “drowning” its crew by preventing from surfacing? A nuclear submarine generates its crew’s oxygen from seawater internally. The technology is not “simple” but is straightforward. (Caution, high pressure oxygen and high pressure hydrogen and seawater and electricity do not combine in friendly modes when brought together improperly!)

A diesel submarine would eventually die. After days of self-enforced silence.

An emergency blow, sonar signals, hull-borne noise (including simple sledge hammers) would bring rescue efforts in shallow water.

Rescue would also reveal the Chinese submarine’s location - which is probably why its crew was sacrificed by their Chinese government.

Taiwan’s trap? Not a Communist Chinese entailing wires and mines?


47 posted on 10/07/2023 12:16:38 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: MarMema; Red Badger; Liz; SunkenCiv; Kaslin; BenLurkin; Lazamataz

The Connunist Chinese Party - and its military elements and economic warfare elements ARE the world’s biggest threat right now.


48 posted on 10/07/2023 12:22:50 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: Robert A Cook PE

That is your belief.
How about some facts?

I can get an opinion on CNN.


49 posted on 10/07/2023 12:54:01 PM PDT by MarMema ("Legitimate Military Targets" (Putin))
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To: MarMema; Liz; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; LS

Oh. Well then, Biden, and the political-acafemic-mass media global elite behind him and propping him up are a more immediate threat to the United States, but that’s only because they are working with, and working for, the Communist Chinese Party’s long term goals.


50 posted on 10/07/2023 1:55:47 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (Method, motive, and opportunity: No morals, shear madness and hatred by those who cheat.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

51 posted on 10/07/2023 11:15:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: logi_cal869

Yes, there are many speculations, and as you wrote we have to wait.

H I Sutton posted this 31 August 2023

Possible Fatal Accident Aboard Chinese Navy Nuclear Submarine
http://www.hisutton.com/Chinese-Navy-Submarine-Incident.html

Many theories as comments to this
https://twitter.com/CovertShores/status/1709301130671387094


52 posted on 10/08/2023 2:25:50 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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To: left that other site

Whosoever diggeth the pit,
Shall fall in it.”...Bob Marley.

Proverbs 26:27, not Bob Marley.


53 posted on 10/08/2023 2:42:09 AM PDT by DaiHuy (I support LGBTQ. (Lets Get Biden to Quit.))
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I think you may be missing, “Made in China”.


54 posted on 10/08/2023 4:39:08 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dreams)
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To: DaiHuy

I know that. I should have put the /s.

Bob Marley often quoted (and misquoted) the Bible.


55 posted on 10/08/2023 4:55:37 AM PDT by left that other site (Roamans 8:28)
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To: MarMema; ansel12
`Those Chinese that died were not an immediate threat to us.

"Immediate?" You mean arming itself to war against the US, thus laying death traps for subs? No, not "immediate" but neither were the 911 terrorists while planning to do their work with flight classes, etc. Neither not was Germany an immediate to the US in 1939. In hindsight should the US not have treated Germany as a enemy then consideration its intent?

Godless communism seeks world dominion, and if not for the US, Tawain would have already been invaded by China, which I am sure has as it long term goal that of the conquest of Australia, and dominating the US, etc. The Left, as proxy servants of Satan, also seeks world dominion.

As Christians we should lament the death of souls headed to Hell, esp. those forced into service by evildoers, and yet on the other hand be relieved when those intent on destruction for self0sh reasons are weakened or subdued. In this case it would have been good if the US could have rescued them and retrieved the sub for examination, but as a gun pointed at the free world, can there not be some relief at the weakening of such, while saddened that souls were lost which may have been saved though unlikely.

I am glad I don’t have your view of the world...”kill or be killed”.

In realm of the civil governments, that is essentially what it does, deterring those who intend to kill. It "beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil." (Romans 13:4)

You need to find Christ. Your heart is black. God made those Chinese men just like He made you.

A sinful accusation, and perverse reasoning. God also made Stalin like He made you. All are sinners, the difference only being in degrees, but when one intends to take innocent life, or promotes and enables the same, like a George Soros, while we should want his salvation, would be we wrong in being relieved upon hearing of his death?

56 posted on 10/08/2023 6:17:06 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212

Relieved is not gloating.

Taiwan is part of China.

Your faith is not mine, pharisee.

Godless communion does not seek world dominion. Go back to the 60s with that ignorance.

Please don’t post to me again.


57 posted on 10/08/2023 7:48:52 AM PDT by MarMema ("Legitimate Military Targets" (Putin))
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To: FrankRizzo890

Suspicious minds
Check out this reaction video by a vocal coach (I love watching her):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX79Rws9C4w&t=68s


58 posted on 10/08/2023 1:14:30 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: MarMema
Relieved is not gloating.

True Taiwan is part of China.

Which ignores the obvious problem.

Your faith is not mine, pharisee.

Evidently, acting like a unreasonable, acerbic recalcitrant pharisee if evidently just part of it.

Godless communion does not seek world dominion. Go back to the 60s with that ignorance.

Actually, communism's conquest was not made so costly and if time had exposed the problem with classical Marxist communion then it likely would have continued in its course. China's leadership realized it could not suppress capitalism as it did, and developed a form of "socialism with Chinese characteristics. Which is most notable for allowing capitalists, officially referred to as the "new social strata", to join the party on the grounds that they engaged in "honest labor and work" and through their labour contributed "to build[ing] socialism with Chinese characteristics." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideology_of_the_Chinese_Communist_Party#Socialist_market_economy)

But just as it exercises totalitarian control over its masses in suppressing dissent , so it seeks to do to its world competition in support of China.

China Seeks ‘Regional and Global Domination,’ Defense Expert Warns Amid Taiwan Tension - https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/04/china-seeks-regional-and-global-domination-defense-expert-warns-amid-taiwan-tension/
Xi’s Vow of World Dominance by 2049 Sends Chill Through Markets - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-26/xi-s-vow-of-world-dominance-by-2049-sends-chill-through-markets#xj4y7vzkg
China seeks world domination - it may already be too late - https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1626506/China-third-world-war-superpower-COVID-19-xi-jinping-Taiwan-straits-war-USA-Biden

Please don’t post to me again.

Then stop calling people names.

59 posted on 10/08/2023 3:24:50 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: daniel1212; admin

Please do not post to me again.

Request number 2.


60 posted on 10/08/2023 4:14:36 PM PDT by MarMema ("Legitimate Military Targets" (Putin))
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