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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I just dont see anyway that the loss of contact wasn't the point when the thing imploded, it's like a plane with engine issues, the first thing they do is send a message saying 'we have a problem' in the case of the sub if he was desperately jettisoning ballast he would have radioed it in, it also isn't really in line with how things implode, that isn't a slow process, implosions are by their nature a process where everything is fine....and then your dead
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Contact is done by acoustic modem which is intermittent depending on water conditions like density changes, and has been reported to have been lost multiple times on prior trips so it's possible they lost contact prior to the implosion.