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2020-06-18 Europe

French submarine burns in ‘unbelievably fierce fire' for 14 hours

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Posted by Phusorong Platypus6384 2020-06-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Fondue, ma cheri?

Posted by Andy Darling of the Pixies5186 2020-06-18 07:25|| 2020-06-18 07:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Just can't find good help these days.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-18 07:45|| 2020-06-18 07:45|| Front Page Top

#3 !4 hours?!? If it was stripped, what could have been onboard to burn that long?

Posted by Jumbo Sleting9206 2020-06-18 10:13|| 2020-06-18 10:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Poss: Oil residue in the bilge set afire by welding or cutting torches. Overheated oxy/acl tank(s) then fed it until electrical insulation melted, pooled in conduits and became tertiary fuel with the engine and drive lube systems.

Bet outsourced stripper team from North Africa.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-18 11:39|| 2020-06-18 11:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Any magnesium structural elements in that kind of sub?

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2020-06-18 13:04|| 2020-06-18 13:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Saw a CDA frame burn,
"unbelievably fierce" does sound like a mag fire.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-06-18 17:40|| 2020-06-18 17:40|| Front Page Top

#7 In fact the submarine was stripped bare

Sounds exactly like something a French submarine would be caught doing.

Posted by Dron66046 2020-06-18 17:44|| 2020-06-18 17:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I would say that this hull was fully annealed after the fire. Now ready to be reincarnated as concrete reinforcing steel.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-06-18 18:24|| 2020-06-18 18:24|| Front Page Top

#9 I suppose immersing it in water to extinguish the fire was out of the question.

Posted by SteveS 2020-06-18 18:28|| 2020-06-18 18:28|| Front Page Top

#10 If it was Magnesium? Probably

Posted by Frank G 2020-06-18 18:35|| 2020-06-18 18:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Good point, Frank.
But my Inner Pyro-Nerd says, "Duude, that would be spectacular!"

Posted by SteveS 2020-06-18 18:44|| 2020-06-18 18:44|| Front Page Top

#12 Old VW blocks were mag and they made spectacular desert bonfires to where you had to wear sunglasses at night. Water doesn't do it

Posted by Frank G 2020-06-18 19:30|| 2020-06-18 19:30|| Front Page Top

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