Kapal selam nuklear
berkuasa gelora (HMS The nuclear powered submarine HMS Turbulent (AFP Photo/WPA
Pool/Barry Batchelor)
bOLLy ENn - Krew
kapal selam UK mempunyai berus rapat dengan kematian apabila kegagalan penghawa
dingin disebabkan suhu melonjak, ia telah muncul. Malapetaka telah dielakkan
selepas kapal selam menyelam ke bawah 200 meter ke dalam perairan sejuk.
HMS
gelora mendedahkan Ia telah dilanda situasi yang berpotensi bencana semasa
rondaan di Lautan Hindi 3 tahun lalu. Sistem penghawa dingin kapal menjadi
tersum-bat, menyebabkan suhu roket untuk 60C (140F).
"Saya
benar-benar menyangka bahawa tidak akan menjadi satu kehilangan nyawa di atas
kapal," Pegawai Pemerintah Ryan Ramsey memberitahu Plymouth Herald,
meng-gambarkan bagaimana awak kapal telah runtuh di mana-mana, ramai masih di
stesen-stesen kerja mereka.
"Ianya
benar-benar menakutkan, dan saya tidak takut untuk mengatakan saya takut. Saya
masih ingat melihat gambar keluarga saya cepat berfikir, Kami perlu di tarik
melalui yang ini".
Ramsey
katanya menjadi terdesak selepas merasmikan hac kapal selam itu gagal untuk
memperbaiki keadaan krisis. Sistem telah mula gagal seluruh dasar laut itu dan
"setiap ruang bebas" telah bertukar menjadi sickbays sementara untuk
menampung anak-anak kapal mengalami penyakit haba. Ramsey adalah atas jambatan
kapal selam apabila bencana melanda.
‘Catastrophic systems failure’: Nuclear submarine captain tells of escape from searing heat . . .
The crew of a UK submarine had a close brush with death when an air-conditioning failure caused temperatures to soar, it has emerged. Catastrophe was averted after the submarine dived down 200 meters into cooler waters.
It has been revealed HMS Turbulent was hit by a potentially disastrous situation while on patrol in the Indian Ocean three years ago. The vessel’s air conditioning system became clogged, causing temperatures to rocket to 60C (140F).
"I genuinely thought there was going to be a loss of life on board,” commanding officer Ryan Ramsey told the Plymouth Herald, describing how crewmembers were collapsing everywhere, many still at their work stations.
“It was absolutely terrifying, and I'm not afraid to say I was scared. I remember looking at a picture of my family quickly thinking, ‘We need to pull through this.’”
Ramsey said he became desperate after opening the submarine’s hatches failed to alleviate the crisis situation. Systems had begun to fail all over the submarine and “every free space” had been turned into makeshift sickbays to cater for crew suffering from heat sickness. Ramsey was on the bridge of the submarine when disaster struck.
Nuklear berkuasa kelas
Trafalgar "pembunuh pemburu" kapal selam gelora HMS (Nuclear powered
Trafalgar class "hunter killer" submarine HMS Turbulent (Reuters/Royal
Navy-Lt Cdr O'Brien)
"Saya
turun ke bawah di bawah dan saya telah bertemu dengan letupan ini yang luar
biasa panasnya," kata Ramsey, sambil menambah bahawa dia pergi ke kabin
Subma-riner yang pertama, yang dia didapati bersalaman dan menangis di atas
lantai selepas keruntuhan.
Ramsey
dan anak-anak kapal boleh melakukan sedikit untuk memperbaiki keadaan peralatan
di kawasan-kawasan masalah terlalu panas untuk disentuh. Selain itu, ketua
pasukan tersebut, kapal selam itu tidak dapat kembali berlabuh di Fujairah di
Emiriah Arab Bersatu, sebagai bertukar dengan kapal nuklear yang patah boleh
menimbulkan "isu-isu politik".
"Saya
rasa seperti dunia ini terhadap kami. Saya melihat ke atas dan bertanya 'Bila
anda akan memberi saya berehat untuk bersalaman di sini? 'Orang yang menangis,
dan ia adalah semua tentang hidup."
Berhadapan
dengan pilihan lain, Ramsey mengarahkan kapal selam untuk menyelam ke laut
dalam. Pada kira-kira 200 meter suhu di kapal selam mula sejuk dan sistem mula
datang dalam talian lagi.
Ternyata
sistem penghawa dingin telah tertutup oleh krustasia semasa penempatan kapal di
Fujairah.
"Tidak
satu hari yang berlalu yang saya tidak fikir tentang apa yang berlaku.
Kesakitan melihat anak-anak kapal saya seperti itu," kata Ramsey yang
memutuskan untuk ber-cakap mengenai kejadian itu 3 tahun selepas menunjukkan
"bagaimana yang menak-jubkan dan luar biasa perkhidmatan ini".
Kegagalan
sistem yang berlaku pada HMS Turbulent begitu jarang berlaku bahawa Tentera
Laut Diraja kini telah termasuk senario di program latihan kapal selam itu.
“I
came down below and I was met with this incredible blast of heat,” Ramsey said,
adding that he went to the cabin of the first submariner, whom he found shaking
and crying on the floor after collapsing.
Ramsey
and the crew could do little to fix the situation as the equipment in the
problem areas was too hot to touch. Also, the captain said, the submarine could
not return to dock at Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, as turning up with
a broken nuclear vessel could give rise to “political issues.”
“I
felt like the world was against us. I was looking up and asking ‘When are you
going to give me a break to gain the upper hand here?’ People were crying, and
it was all about survival.”
Faced
with no other option, Ramsey ordered the submarine to dive into deeper waters.
At around 200 meters the temperatures in the submarines began to cool and
systems began coming online again.
It
turned out the air conditioning system had been bunged up by crustaceans during
the vessel’s deployment in Fujairah.
“There’s
not a day that goes by that I do not think about what happened. The pain of
seeing my crew like that,” said Ramsey who decided to speak about the incident
three years after to show “how amazing and incredible the service is.”
The
systems failure that occurred on HMS Turbulent was so rare that the Royal Navy
has now included the scenario in its submarine training program.
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