Underwater images from Singapore's submarine rescue vessel, the MV Swift Rescue, show wreckage from

[soothsayer]

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SUNKEN INDONESIA SUBMARINE: Underwater images from Singapore’s submarine rescue vessel, the MV Swift Rescue, show wreckage from the sunken KRI Nanggala-402. Rescuers found the submarine broken into at least 3 parts in the Bali Sea.

[dameatball]

1. First images I have seen. That has got to be a tough way to go.

[Towlie]

2. Yes and no. It would have been worse for the crew if they had been running out of air on the bottom.

 
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Apparently it was the same predicament depicted in Das Boot except that the sub was crushed before it hit bottom.

[dameatball]

5. Great movie.

[Treefrog]

7. One of the best war movies evah!

I can never watch the English version, only the captioned one.

[Towlie]

10. And it seems the Indonesian sub couldn't even survive the depth that a U-boat could.

Indonesian Navy Says Missing Submarine Sunk, Crew Of 53 Dead

Navy officials do not believe the submarine exploded, but say it likely cracked under immense pressure from the depth it was at. The vessel was built with a maximum operating depth of 200 to 250 meters...

[EX500rider]

14. Operating depth and test depth 2 different things, it had a test depth of 500m

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_209_submarine#Technical_specifications

[Treefrog]

17. Frightening. But the Germans were/are good at building subs, planes, you name it.

When I did a lot of transatlantic travel back in my younger days, I usually chose Lufthansa. I know there's some joke out there about the English, Germans, French, etc. Reflecting their strengths and weaknesses by stereotype.

That all being said, I hope it all occurred too fast for those men to know what was going to happen.

[EX500rider]

22. The Type 209 sub is a German built sub...but it was over 40 years old. nt

[sammythecat]

12. Same here.

So much of the movie is tight closeups. Just doesn't work with English dubbing coming from their mouths. Distracting as hell and just ruins the atmosphere. One of my favorite movies all time.

[Treefrog]

18. I know! I think the engineer's name was Johann, and when I saw him screaming in the English version,

my mind somehow switched over to the German. I can speak a little and understand more, but that movie is so immersive (so to speak) that I can only see it as the original.

[Towlie]

25. If it weren't for captions in German movies we wouldn't have "Hitler is informed that..." videos.

 
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Seriously, that sub movie is best with sub captions.

[bahboo]

3. hope death came quickly....man...

[soothsayer]

4. Yeah.

[Treefrog]

6. I can't figure out that last pic, the one with the red fabric or whatever.

Anyone know?

[Volaris]

8. It looks like a false-color image of the seafloor topography,

With the area of the wreck pieces colored in grey...

That's a best guess tho...

[VGNonly]

9. What remains of a life raft...?

or a submarine escape suit...

[Treefrog]

11. Yeah, it looks like some sort of fabric. I really can't make it out though.

Poor guys. I’m not sure you could get me even on a docked submarine.

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. What would do that to a submarine? nt

[EX500rider]

15. Something bad happened..

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Either it cracked and took on too much water or had a fire or runaway torpedo or had issues that kept them from rising back up and slowly sank to crush depth.
Frankly a 40 yo sub is just too old, esp in a 3rd world navy.

[leftyladyfrommo]

16. What an awful way to die. Those those poor people. nt

I hate water.

[cinematicdiversions]

20. There are stories of

A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind." It is said to resemble an octopus, a dragon and a human caricature, hundreds of meters tall, with webbed human-looking arms and legs and a pair of rudimentary wings on its back.Its head is depicted as similar to the entirety of a gigantic octopus, with an unknown number of tentacles surrounding its supposed mouth.

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. That's why I never go in water. You just never know

what's down there.

[Delphinus]

19. Oh my ...

may they not have suffered.

[EX500rider]

23. When a sub sinks beyond crush depth it is fast..

Although possibly gruesome as the rapidly compressed air as the water rushes in means anything flammable would burst into flames until the water slams into the area and snuffs it out again. The impact of the water would cause significant injury to anyone unlucky enough to still be alive.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. I thought I read somewhere that it's instant. As in you wouldn't know what hit you.

Maybe you would know you are si king and to expect it.

[Demovictory9]

26. terrible