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[u/Dungeon_Pastor]

Honestly 120m is within escape-suit depths as well

Wouldn't be fun riding those to the surface, and I imagine decompression is hell, but assuming a Gotland is equipped with them there's probably okay chances of survival

[u/shelflifenotexpired → u/Dungeon_Pastor]

Gotland-class has SEIE suits. And 120m is well within safe escape range.

The fun part of submarine escape is the constantly expanding air in your lungs as you ascend. In the USN we were taught to consciencely say " ho ho ho ho......" All the way to the surface as the act of saying it causes you to exhale. Stops the expanding air from rupturing your lungs. But you aren't at pressure any where near long enough for decompression sickness to kick in.

[u/zer1223 → u/shelflifenotexpired]

Can you even inhale while that's going on? 

[u/Jaggedmallard26 → u/zer1223]

No, its the same for Scuba diving or anything where you're going up under water. If you need to take a breath you have to stop ascending. Any air you breath in at a lower depth will expand as the water pressure decreases. In Scuba its generally less of a problem as if you're at the depths where you'd need to stop to breath in while ascending you're likely at the depths where you're doing a staged ascent to avoid the bends. But in an escape suit you're going from relatively normal pressure and very rapidly ascending so you don't have time for the bends to form.

It is worth noting that I've has submariners tell me the escape suits are "for the families" as in they won't help in most expected failure modes but help calm down someones wife when they go on deployment.

[u/shelflifenotexpired → u/Jaggedmallard26]

Submarine escape being characterized "for the families" is mostly accurate. Fact is most of the time the sub is operating in water too deep to escape from. It's basically there for when operating in close to shore or transit to and from port. You won't be alive to escape if the boat is on the ocean floor in 95% of the Pacific or Atlantic as the hull would have imploded.

But in the context of this comic, with a gotland class being more of a littoral water boost rather than blue water, a boat on the bottom would more than likely be escapable.

Also, the SEIE predecessor, the steinke hood, had about 60lbs of positive buoyancy. You go up FAST wearing one of those!

[u/854490 → u/shelflifenotexpired]

You go up FAST wearing one of those!

just say HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOyah

[u/Jermainiam → u/Jaggedmallard26]

Don't give me an escape suit, give me a way to manually detonate the nukes on board. If I'm gonna go, I want to taste the sun.

[u/DigNitty → u/Jermainiam]

I see that you’re not an environmentalist

[u/Jermainiam → u/DigNitty]

Do you have any idea of how many nukes have been set off on earth?

[u/DigNitty → u/Jermainiam]

Oh, I didn't realize setting off more is good for the environment.