22 submarines in accidents during past decade
21st June 2011
Not so surprising when you realize that most military submarines are playing blind man’s buff – they go forward into the dark and rely on charts to avoid stationary obstacles and depend on their sense of hearing (sonar) to avoid moving objects. Using active echolocation would, of course, make things a lot safer, but the whole point of a military submarine would be sort of undercut by their emitting loud noises at regular intervals.