Let’s kick start the week with something cool and never seen before. Like for example did you know that some Russian submarines have an emergency capsule – a module where people can flock in and it would eject and rush to the surface saving the crew (or a part of the crew) and letting the big boat go sink down there? If you didn’t we have the photos from a recent testing of this thing. Let’s see..
I am not sure if the older submarines had this but these newer ones have, and here they test it. The submarine goes deep in the sea and then some crew members move into this thing and the submarine ejects it. Its made that way that even when submarine has launched its emergency capsule there is no a water breach on its place, so submarine can move further.
To imitate an emergency they took a huge submarine that weighs over 13,000 tons and put it 40 meters deep mimicking like it lays on the sea bottom with engines off. Then they launched the capsule.
There were only five people in the module this time and the rest was just dummy load which used to pretend the full crew was there.
You can see the dummy load inside.
The interesting thing that is when the capsule is gets ejected the submarine becomes lighter proportionally so the crew that was on submarine had emergently stabilize the submarine according to its new “weight”. On this photo you can see how cold it is outside – there is ice on the rails on the left.
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