Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Russian submarine tragedy that caused by smoking

Russian submarine incident sketch of the process: the two doors in the event of a fire alarm had been closed and the release of freon, at this time there were two indoor tank 41
俄潜艇事发过程示意图:两个舱门在发生火警报警时被封闭,并释放了氟利昂,此时两个舱室内共有41人
November 8, Russia, "Akula II" class "Cheetah" attack submarines as a result of the illegal system to start the fire, leading to the 20 on board were released from the fire caused the death of freon gas. There are currently 21 persons killed and one injured died in hospital. Russian newspaper revealed that the accident was likely caused by smoking, but why the victims did not wear oxygen masks, which become a major doubt. According to the Russian "Komsomolskaya Pravda" on November 10 delivered a speech entitled "on board the death of 20 people, wearing gas masks?" The article said that after the accident all the Russian people are concerned about the tense situation in the tense things: part of the Tranquilizer eat, drink some vodka. They all think of the pain in the same issue: Is it also a "Kursk." The article said that the reactor compartment and the main work of the cabin in good condition and received no damage than the "Kursk" to be lucky. But here the "lucky" the wisdom of the word also is open to question: can sail their own "Cheetah", carrying 20 naval engineers and the return of the bodies of the port, they were suffocated. Shipbuilding engineers introduced an interview with the reporter to tell the two could lead to tragedy: a nuclear submarine in the thermal sensor failure, the cabin temperature to increase slightly on the arrival of its standard fire alarm in order to start the fire-extinguishing system. Second, it was smoking in cabins, the new device can have a smoke on the instantaneous response has been, after the door is locked, freon consumes oxygen, resulting in the death of staff. Why did not the crew put on oxygen masks of the doubt, the engineers said that the police may be delayed, may be no direct report to the police to release the freon. The latter seems to have a proven, one expert said in an interview: "In the absence of fire cases is not directly start the fire alarm system, that is to say the police did not voice will be heard. Those at the second compartment, inhalation The only less gas escaped death. Russian maritime technology expert Igor Yila Li said that even if the police have also grabbed the robbery is difficult, because there are not too many professional training of non-military personnel, they will not have enough time ran out. According to the manual, the alarm once the alarm, all operators should be immediately put on personal breathing devices, did not rule out non-military personnel in the absence of the equipment, even if they may not be used. In addition, the report also accused the nuclear submarine accident overloading travel, the time of the accident that there are 208 nuclear submarines, of which there are 81 Russian officers and sailors, and the preparation of the submarine normally rated only 73 people. Reported that the trip along with the staff but also those of its delivery to India's Ministry of National Defense Committee. The article implied that said: "The (officials) choose to leave on the sea, it is to be delivered in a hurry?"
11月8日,俄“阿库拉 II”级“猎豹”号攻击型核潜艇因消防系统非法启动,导致 20名该船上人员被释放出的灭火气体氟利昂造成窒息而死。现共有21名遇难人员,另有一名受伤人员在医院不治身亡。俄报披露,此次事故有可能是有人吸烟造成,但遇难者为什么有氧气面罩而没有戴,这成为主要疑团。
据俄《共青团真理报》11月10日发表了题为“船上窒息而死的20人,戴着防毒面具?”的文章说,事故发生后所有俄罗斯人都紧张的关注事情的紧张情况:一部分人吃镇定剂,一部分人喝伏特加。他们都在痛苦的想到同一个问题:难道又是一次“库尔斯克”。
文章说,此次反应堆舱和主工作舱状况良好,没收到损害,这比“库尔斯克”要幸运。但这里用“幸运”这个词是否明智还值得商榷:还可以自己航行的“猎豹”号载着20条海军和工程师的尸体返回港口,他们都是窒息而死。
介绍采访的造船工程师告诉记者两个可能导致悲剧的原因:一、核潜艇里的热传感器失灵,舱里温度稍有提高就到达了其火灾报警标准,从而启动了灭火系统。二、有人在舱里吸烟(这不奇怪,舱里有太多的非军方人员,原文作者注)。新的设备可以瞬时对产生的烟雾有所反应,之后就是锁死舱门,氟利昂消耗掉氧气,导致人员窒息而死。
对于为什么船员没有戴上氧气面罩的疑问,该工程师说或许是报警延迟了,或许是根本没有任何报警而直接释放氟利昂了。对于后一个推想有一个证明,一位专家接受采访时说:“在没有明火的情况下是没有报警而直接启动灭火系统,也就是说没有报警声音出现。那些位于第二舱室的人,因为吸入的毒气少才逃过一劫。
俄海事技术问题专家伊拉利奥诺夫说,即使有报警也很难夺过此劫,因为有太多没有接受专业培训的非军方人员,他们不会有充足的时间跑出去。根据操作手册,报警器一旦报警,所有操作员都应该马上戴上个人呼吸装置,不排除那些非军方人员没有该装备,即使有他们可能也不会用。
此外,该报道还指责出事核潜艇超载出行,事故发生时核潜艇上有208人,其中有81名俄海军官兵,而潜艇正常额定编制仅为73人。报道称,一起出行的人员中还包括那些将其交付给印度国防部的委员会成员。文章暗指说:“(官员们)选择在休假日出海,难道是急着要交货吗?”