Russian Submarine sends SOS in swedish territorial waters. Sunk by the Swedish navy?

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[ConfusedSwede]

Breaking news in Sweden after two days of hunt. Swedish government report that a russian submarine is sending an SOS message on a de-crypted frequency.

[ansel12]

Spirit of silt?

Vodka for the self destructive submariners of Russia?

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Golly, I wonder if one of their crewmen had sympathies to Ukraine, Chechnya, Georgia, etc., where Pooty-Poot has been acting up?

That’s the neat part about submarines. They are fragile little things, especially at depth. Unless everybody does their job just right, well...

[pierrem15]

Swedish paper reporting the sub was briefly visually observed and sent a distress call on an emergency channel and received a response from Kaliningrad. In addition, a Liberian flagged "tanker" owned by a Russian company is sitting still just outside Swedish territorial waters.

Sounds like a mini-sub deployed by the "tanker" is in trouble, and the Swedes are working hard to track it down.

[Safetgiver]

it doesn’t sound fun being a Russian submariner these days.....
I’m sorry. It don’t seem like fun to be a submariner in any day.( Apologies to all you guys in the deep under water fighting sectors). But sheesh, I’d rather hide under a banana tree.

[Drango]

can’t they just use a wrench and tap the SOS on the hull?

[Robert A Cook PE]

More likely: The Russian sub got into a problem while below in modestly shallow waters - say 200 - 800 feet deep. It blew an emergency surface, but too late or the blow was too little too slow. The bow or top of the Russian sub broke the surface -> became visible for a moment, then went back under. (If it were up for any longer than just a few seconds, somebody could have opened the hatches and gotten out.)

Then the sub went back under - maybe rotating or even going backwards to the bottom. Somebody remained alive down below - released the emergency transponder/radio on a float that reached the surface. Hence the “unencrypted” (emergency radio) signal and replies from the Russian shore base that was picked up by the Swedish listening stations. A buoy or float is required because a normal radio signal cannot get out from a submerged antenna, and all submarines have that kind of emergency buoys near there escape hatches. (Ours have a telephone also so a rescue diver or DSRV minisub can follow the line back down to the sunken sub, hookup and transfer survivors to the surface.)

I am surprised the US rescue submersibles are not already deployed to Sweden. Obola needs the positive publicity. They are NATO compatible, but I’ve don’t know if the US DSRV are Russian-hatch compatible.

[Ann Archy]

hmmm

[Scrambler Bob]

wrench???

In a US submarine you could use a wench.

[Straight Vermonter]

More likely: The Russian sub got into a problem while below in modestly shallow waters - say 200 - 800 feet deep.

800 feet is very deep for a sub.

[DB]

A maneuver gone bad to avoid the Swedish navy that was looking for them?

[ansel12]

Let’s hope so.

[VeniVidiVici]

What’s long and hard and full of seamen?

Well in this case, we know a Russian sub is not one of the possibilities!!

[CrazyIvan]

“Andrei…You’ve lost another submarine?”

[Molon Labbie]

Vasily, you mean you have lost another sub?

[ConfusedSwede]

If the swedish navy sunk a russian submarine it will have consequences.

[Molon Labbie]

Ach, I meant Andrei....

[Azeem]

A more accurate word would be “unencrypted” or the military term “in the clear”.

Unless it was sent on an encrypted channel and the Swedes decrypted it. Then the description is accurate.

[cloudmountain]

Of course, with the Russian conscript system some of the kids running that sub probably were farming cabbage in Petropavlovsk a few weeks ago.
CC

OR

They were making bootleg vodka. I SUPPOSE that vodka can be made EVEN from cabbage. We used to make illegal hooch in Saudi Arabia...from only sugar, water and yeast and THROUGH a BODACIOUS still.

[editor-surveyor]

Swedes and Russians are tight buddies.

They’re both total socialists.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Breaking pressure hull!” <<

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