After equalizing the pressure in the trunk, they can get going on their escape. They open the hatch, float the buoy, and tie it off. Now the raft can be floated up the buoy line. Since they are ...

which made repeated but futile attempts to hook onto the Kursk's submarine escape hatch. Only after a week of vain attempts did Moscow invite Norwegian divers to assist. They were able to open the ...

In an emergency, there are two ways the escape trunk can be used to get men off the submarine ... two men enter the trunk they lock the inner hatch and quickly flood the chamber with seawater ...

THIS is the horrific moment the Sindbad submarine disaster unfolds as the vessel plunges beneath the waves with its hatches still open. Harrowing footage shows the sub beginning its dive beneath ...

a junior officer opened the inner door of a flooded torpedo tube and inadvertently sank the British submarine Thetis. A few men got out through an escape hatch, but 99 were lost. The British ...

Had he escaped and left the hatch open, those who remained ... the Navy had no established escape or rescue procedure for submarines. He said it was hours before a diving team tapped on the ...

The Sindbad had been in operation as a tourist submarine for a number of years. Survivor Elena Boldareva said the white-hulled vessel’s hatches were open when it dived at the start of the £68 ...

A woman who was on board the Sindbad tourist submarine which sank in the Red Sea and cost six people their lives has spoken about the moment she realised things were going wrong. The submarine sank ...