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Not an expert...but my impression is that the implosion, at depth, of even the very small submarine in question here would generate an extremely loud "noise". Probably obvious to any hydrophone on the support vessel, and near-certainly recorded in detail by military monitoring systems.

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I would rather die in an implosion that running out of air at 3,000 metres over the course of several days.

You will never “run out of air” at 3000 meters. That’s under 10K feet.

Even pilots only have to wear oxygen for sustained flight about 12.5K feet (and that’s for cognition, not survival).

You will absolutely run out of air 3000 meters underwater, as being discussed here.

Ah geez, my bad. I was crossing this with the sub thread on the relative risks of K2.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36395397

Ok, now I'm curious.

How do you read and comment?

I'm a one-thread-at-a-time kinda person. I read, I comment on things if I want to, then I move on to other threads.

I more or less do that as well, but after each comment, I’m dropped back on the thread that I’m still halfway through. Depending on how I scroll and how the comments are re-ordered (as they’re voted on), I’m subject to crossing sub-threads, especially on mobile and when I’m partly killing time. In this case, I was in an Uber and then an airport so a little more prone to start-stop even within the one article.

That’s an explanation and not really an excuse. This one was sloppy, as I guess they all would be.

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