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  1. 15th September 2024, 12:35 PM #2991
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    Irony? I'm watching NRLW, Cowboys V Roosters.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Farang View Post
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    "China's new nuclear submarine sinks in humiliating blow" Exclusive | China’s Newest Nuclear Submarine Sank, Setting Back Its Military Modernization - WSJ

    If it flew up in the air, I would be shocked. A Sub sinking is just diving training

    PS Hands up any Navy type who hasn't seen a few stuff ups Nuclear armed UK warship backing onto a reef North QLD springs to mind. That sprung a few leaks as well. It didn't quite sink
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    Seem to remember a story a while ago about a submarine sinking as someone left a hatch open. As is so often the case it is the human factor that overrides all the designed in safety features
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3toes View Post
    Seem to remember a story a while ago about a submarine sinking as someone left a hatch open. As is so often the case it is the human factor that overrides all the designed in safety features
    I think that has been the downfall of more than one submarine!
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    Quote Originally Posted by JDNSW View Post
    I think that has been the downfall of more than one submarine!
    you mean drownfall?
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    I recall reading a book about HMS Unbroken, WWII sub. Even the loo ( ok James. Head ) was tricky if you mismanaged the complex valve arrangement. They called this "getting your own back".

    I hope they have come up with a better arrangement.
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    There are quite a few videos and links online of the WW2 German Uboat U-1206 which sank at the end of the war because of a toilet malfunction...


    The Wild Truth Behind The German U-Boat Sunk By A Toilet
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    Building on a flood plain- What could go wrong

    Hope everyone is safe! Just thought about flood insurance!

    NOT suggesting the deaths a trivial!!!!!!!

    Hurricane Helene caused at least 52 deaths and billions of dollars of destruction across a wide swath of the southeastern U.S. as it raced through, and more than 3 million customers went into the weekend without any power and for some a continued threat of floods. LiveNOW from FOX host Josh Breslow spoke to Eric Deaton with Ballad Health on the impacts in the area.

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    Divers like it wet- this may be a bit much!

    "A state of emergency was declared for the New Zealand city of Dunedin as it has its wettest day in more than 100 years."I didn't expect the event to be of this magnitude," city mayor Jules Radich said on Friday morning.
    According to NIWA, Dunedin's Musselburgh station recorded its second-wettest day on record with almost 131mm in the 24 hours to 9am today local time (6am AEST). The last time it was at least this wet in Musselburgh was in April 1923."

    We now our northern parts can drop a bit.

    The record may be "According to the World Meteorological Organization, a record 1,825 mm (71.8 in) of rain fell in 24 hours at Foc-Foc (elevation: 2,990 m; 9,810 ft) on the French island territory of Réunion in the Indian Ocean on 7–8 January 1966."

    Now that's enough to get my snorkel wet

    Back to our records required and then the controversy starts

    The highest rainfall in a single day

    Crohamhurst Controversy

    It was a locality called Crohamhurst. a rural backwater of the Sunshine Coast, that the record for the highest rainfall in a single day occurred in the 1890s. The title of ‘most rainfall in a day’ is the Holy Grail of climate records in Australia. On February 3, 1893, twenty-year-old Inigo Jones, who had recently had his meteorology career terminated at the Queensland Office of Meteorology, recorded an incredible 907mm of rainfall in a single day, which covers the periods from 9 am to 9 am.
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    How wet is relative and a tall story to two exist of course.
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