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Dragged Under at 02:17: How a Submarine Sank Four Fishermen
Dragged Under at 02:17: How a Submarine Sank Four Fishermen
Fear of unseen danger: a Royal Navy submarine running a Perisher exercise struck a trawler’s fishing gear at 02:17, capsizing the 55-foot Antares and killing all four crew-how did sonar readings merge two vessels into one contact, and why did no search begin for nearly eight hours?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that night in Bute Sound, who was aboard the Antares and HMS Trenchant, and which procedural failures and equipment issues shaped the outcome; could different detection or stowage of safety gear have changed…
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