OH&S RAN subs

“If you were in your bunk when they fired a torpedo or did a water shot, you’d get a puff of this black stuff (carbon) come out of your ventilation…”

This report: Oberon Class Submarine Occupational Hygiene Project (PDF) is for the Oberon, but there are some Collins mentions too.

Good reading and something the RAN/DMO, and designer of the Collins replacement will have to consider.

“It was an open engine room (the Oberon). Not like the Collins Class, they run with the door shut; the engine room is an enclosed area. So what immensely different to the Collins Class and the Oberon is that there is no diesel smell outside the engine room on a Collins Class submarine.”


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