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Interesting. If they were resting on the bottom. Could you even rock hard enough to drop the ballasts? Although even if they can get to the surface if they have

Interesting. If they were resting on the bottom. Could you even rock hard enough to drop the ballasts? Although even if they can get to the surface if they have now power how the hell do you find them? It's not like they'll be float on the surface they'd likely be just below the surface.

waste_monk 3y ago
Apparently most "narco submarines" are spotted visually from the air, and those are camouflaged to blend in with the ocean and produce minimal wake, so I would imagine spotting the missing (non-camouflaged) sub at barely-submerged depth would be trivial (as long as it hasn't drifted to far from the last known position) [1]. I saw one of the news articles about this event mention there is a P-8 Poseidon sub-hunting aircraft assisting the search effort, and I would imagine it has a very nice set of optical sensors, thermal cameras, sonobouys, etc. and would have no issues finding the missing sub if it were near surface level ... I don't believe the P-8 has magnetic field sensors but I believe older sub-hunting aircraft had them, which could also be a means of locating the sub. Unfortunately (and I hope I am wrong) I suspect the vessel is drifting in deep water or stuck on the sea floor - if it were shallow they'd have probably found it already. [1] I found this photo on Reddit of what is apparently a partially-submerged Italian navy submarine photographed from a P-3 Orion on a training exercise - I was surprised how good the visibility is https://i.redd.it/eb68q4j1pnt71.jpg https://i.redd.it/eb68q4j1pnt71.jpg commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/q8u9te/an_active_submarine_spotted_from_the_air_during_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/q8u9te/a...