Note to self...close the submarine hatch before submerging....

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How Just One Simple Human Error Almost Destroyed a Missile Submarine

The Hindu reported yesterday that the Arihant has been out of commission since suffering “major damage” some 10 months ago, due to what a navy source characterized as a “human error” — to wit: allowing water to flood to sub’s propulsion compartment after failing to secure one of the vessel’s external hatches.

Water “rushed in as a hatch on the rear side was left open by mistake while [the Arihant] was at harbor” in February 2017, shortly after the submarine’s launch, The Hindu reports. Since then, the sub “has been undergoing repairs and clean up,” according to the paper: “Besides other repair work, many pipes had to be cut open and replaced.”

 

[DA SWO]

Ya thinks they'd have a bunch of lights showing which hatches were open or closed, lol.

 

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How Just One Simple Human Error Almost Destroyed a Missile Submarine

The Hindu reported yesterday that the Arihant has been out of commission since suffering “major damage” some 10 months ago, due to what a

 

[SpitfireV]

The Indians are generally a bunch of idiots. At least in this case they can't point to, say, Russia or Britain and blame them for their own failings.