When a military submarine is disabled (often referred to as DISSUB) while submerged, the crew of the vessel have two options. They can either wait for rescue crews to arrive or they can escape on ...

(This is an updated version of a 2021 piece written after the loss of the Indonesian submarine KRI Nanggala-402 off Bali, which took the lives of all 53 people on board. The time taken to find it, ...

Ever since human beings created the first submarines, there have been other, more claustrophobic people who have stared at the devices and thought: “Nope.” For many, the thought of the pipe- and ...

Australia has cancelled a contract with Phoenix International for the delivery of a new submarine escape, rescue, and abandonment system (SERAS) intended to support the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) ...

(Reposting this from two years ago after the search for a lost Indonesian submarine. The takeaway here is that below about 1,000 feet at most it is not possible to survive outside the sub and get to ...