#submarines

[xoxoauntscripty]

*TW for amateur surgery*

Okay. It's 1942.

There's a US submarine, USS Silversides, operating in HIGHLY dangerous Japanese waters.

And one poor bastard, some machinists mate, gets a case of acute appendicitis

They can't radio for an airlift because the Japanese will find them

But they don't have a surgeon on board.

The only medical person they have is a fucking pharmacist's mate

As in, a pill counter guy

As in, the cold and flu and small stitches guy

Not the "cut open a machinists mate on a moving submarine" guy

Not even 3 steps below that guy

But he's all they have, and if they do nothing, this guy is gonna fucking die.

So this motherfucker

Risks a court martial

To do surgery

Without an OR

With bent fucking spoons as makeshift retractors

And the patient's coworkers as assistants

He somehow miraculously fucking gives the dude spinal anesthesia, correctly

Opens the abdomen

Cuts out the appendix (somehow without rupturing it, which would have killed the guy)

Almost kills everybody with ether (because of course he does, it's incredibly dangerous for everyone in the room)

Identifies a MAJOR fucking bleed

Can't find the source of the bleed, so he *runs the bowel like a fucking surgeon*

Figures out it's a clamp that slipped

Does fucking vascular surgery to fix the bleed

Closes the guy up

And the patient fucking lives

This fucking completely untrained pharmacist's mate

Performs a major surgery

Underwater

On a moving ship

Without antibiotics

And saves a motherfucking life

(And manages the patient through multiple rounds of getting depth charged by a Japanese destroyer, because war)

The fucking patient is back on duty less than a week after the surgery.

So tip out a fucking glass to Pharmacist's Mate Thomas A Moore, who risked a murder and professional suicide

And possibly had

The biggest balls under the waves.

#history #medical history #amateur surgery #world war 2 #submarines

[lucasdoesnotcare]

Well, the titan "submarine" is your local fucking reminder that "Regulations are written in blood" Is NOT a just a fucking saying or just a fucking joke.

#titan submersible #submarines #diy submarine #dumb ways to die #oceangate #Disaster waiting to happen #They killed themselves #Lets not lie #Regulations are written in blood #That's not just a fucking saying #Get that through your fucking thick skull #Titan #submarine

[phroexx]

#titanic #billionaires #submarines

[fortunelowtier]

Ok so for those who didn't see the news, recently 5 rich people went “””missing””” (they're totally fucking dead) in a “Titanic tourist submarine”, basically made as a way rich people can tour (what's left of) the Titanic's wreckage for a small fee of $250,000 per person.

Anyways, setting aside the horrific implications of dying in a submarine at  13,000 feet (~4km) below sea level, the more I learn about this entire situation the more I become morbidly...amused??

so for starters, the submarine was literally the submarine from Iron Lung. its a metal cylinder with one singular porthole at the front of the vessel that is bolted shut from the outside, and has no seats, its literally just a cylinder

the second thing you need to know is that this thing was wireless, as in it was being controlled from the surface and the people inside had no control, which is concerning in multiple ways because a ship this scuffed should have a safety cable leading to the “mothership” (basically if you've ever watched ocean documentaries and they always have that long cable attached to the sub, that's for in case the wireless control fucks up and they need it to be wired)

what makes this little fact so much more morbidly funny is that this thing was controlled using the remains of a Logitech Gamepad controller from ~2004/2005, a controller notorious for being one of the most clunky pieces of gaming equipment ever designed. so clunky in fact that few people even recognized it, originally mistaking it to be a combination of an Xbox 360 and a PS1 controller. estimated price of $30.

“but Fortune” I hear a very few of you asking, “it shouldn't matter what its controlled with, as long as the connection is good”

and to that my dear reader you would be correct! there are indeed submarines out there controlled with even simple joysticks, and using game controllers to control stuff like this isn't new (why do you think army recruiters prey on low GPA high school gamers to fly drones)

no you see the issue comes when you realize that what this sub was using to transmit controls. was fucking. STARLINK.

Yes, that's correct, Starlink, the service that can barely do its job on land was being used to transmit data through 2.5 miles (4km) of water, at a depth where anything that isn't highly pressurized is crushed instantly 

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And at the end of this, if some of you still feel bad for the rich people who spent a quarter of a million dollars to get bolted into a metal cylinder with no seats and a singular porthole that was being controlled by Elon Musk's barely functioning wireless service and one of the most notoriously clunky gaming controllers of all time that was probably bought from a thrift store, just know that it was most likely over quick. 

The likely thing that ended up happening was cabin depressurization, and at such a depth this means they were knocked unconscious by the rapid loss of pressure in the vessel almost instantly, and then shortly thereafter crushed by the weight of the ocean around them. 

Scientifically speaking, they were likely dead so fast that the brain likely couldn't even comprehend what was happening, the most they would've felt is a little pop in their ears for a fraction of a second.

#ocean #submarines #titanic #im gonna be real with you man idk how to even tag this kinda thing #news #? #tw thalassophobia #thalassophobia #cw death

[nemfrog]

"You can't get a moment's peace with all these submarines." Ménagerie. 1906.

Internet Archive

#comic books #anthropormorphic #underwater #enviroment #undersea #noise #fish #noise pollution #submarines #nemfrog #1906 #early 1900s

[mysharona1987]

Paul-Henri Nargolet was an experienced diver. He was 77. He was also a sad elderly widower who openly admitted he was sanguine about death. He know Oceangate was…questionable and a potential death trap. But he was fine with going out quick. He still let a 19 year old kid get on that death trap sub.

Stockton Rush is the obvious villain here.

But I have questions about Paul-Henri.

#Titanic #News #suluman dawaoid #oceangTe #Stockton rush #submarines #pakistan

[theworldatwar]

The German Type IX U-boat was capable of long range operations, though it had to spend a large amount of time on the surface - date and location unknown

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #wwii era #ww2history #world war 2 #kriegsmarine #submarines #submarine #wolf pack #u boat #das boot #type IX

[phoenixyfriend]

It's... I think it's easier to talk about the submersible.

Like. The migrants are a regular occurrence. A horrible example of negligence in the face of need. You can't joke about it, even as a form of grim humor, because it's not something anyone brought on themselves, it's just pure desperation met with cruel spite.

And in regards to the people saying that the memes are 'this generation lacking empathy...'

The memes are people screaming

Like yeah it looks like a lack of empathy but it's just

We are all so angry

And we feel bad for their deaths, but we feel so much angrier that people can waste money on a death trap after earning billions, something that can't be done ethically, at all, ever

We are all, no matter the age, just teenagers playing loud music hoping someone with power realizes we are not okay

(Note: I do feel significantly more pity for the teenager who didn't even want to go, but his dad wanted to go and so it was meant to be a bonding experience, because dying sucks, but dying for someone else's stupid dream in a death trap is just. God. Fuck. None of these people had to die, not in either tragedy, but there's something painful about something that so very much did not need to happen. He didn't need to be on that thing. He didn't want to be on that thing. But he wanted to make his dad happy, and there's something so damn poignantly awful about that, in particular. I don't know anything about this kid, but it just. So did not need to happen.)

#current events #migrant crisis #submersible #submarines #greece #death tw

[vintagegeekculture]

Michael Whelan

#submarines #abyss #scifi covers #pulp covers #h beam piper

[jbluphin]

"There is nothing, nothing, nothing more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie-detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool the metal." - Leo Graff, Falling Free (by Lois McMaster Bujold)

#vorkosigan saga #falling free #I've been thinking about this quote a lot this past week #what with #submarines #and such

[dbf-enthusiast]

First snowfall of the season.

#museum ships #submarines #diesel boats #naval history #history #us navy #uss becuna #uss olympia #diesel boats forever #museums #battleship new jersey

[mahoukarp-official]

shark submarines

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#mahoukarp #shark #art #artists on tumblr #submarines

[mapsontheweb]

Number of Submarines by country.

by Maps_interlude

#maps #submarines #Maps_interlude #twsourced

[mysharona1987]

Re: The Titanic submarine. Somebody said “a scaredy cat is still an alive cat” and I can’t stop thinking about that.

Obviously you can’t live your life in total fear of everything.

But if you need that adrenaline rush: Um, surfing, rock climbing, kayaking, sky diving, etc.

Of course these activities are risky too. But unlike sealing yourself in a tin can death trap to get a brief, murky glimpse of something we already saw in the 1997 movie, they aren’t death sentences either.

#Titanic #news #atlantic ocean #oceangate #submarines #James cameron #ocean

[theworldatwar]

As U-boats were vulnerable to both aircraft and surface vessels maintaining a good look out was essential - date and location unknown

#world war two #1940s #worldwar2photos #history #ww2 #ww2 history #wwii #world war 2 #wwii era #ww2history #kriegsmarine #uboat #Wolfpack #submarines

[the-swift-tricker]

The Nautilus as it appears in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[id under cut]

[id three separate images showing the nautilus, a massive, ornately built steampunk-esque submarine with the design of a copper toned giant squid stretching across the top from front to back, tentacles wrapping forward around the bow of the ship. the first image shows the nautilus breaching the surface of the ocean and spouting a jet of water out of a blowhole like apparatus. the second shows it submerging with bubbles filling the waters around it. the third shows it docked in murky, greenish waters. end id]

#the league of extraordinary gentlemen #tloeg #the nautilus #captain nemo #nemo #20000 leagues under the sea #twenty thousand leagues under the sea #jules verne #submarines #ocean #sea #swift-tricker's posts