Still reeling from the Oceangate doco I saw.

It only needed to be 3 minutes long.

"This fucking TOOOOOL went down to serious depth, in a sub that made these noises ..."

Sounds of the carbon-fibre hull stress-tearing during dives:

"bang! .... bang! .... bang bang! .... BANG! ...."

"No folks, that's not Jason Momoa thumping it with his trident! That's the sub saying 'Im a gona break!'"

#techbros
#killallbillionaires
#spoiltassholes
#submarines
#bang

US Naval Institute: What is the Most Realistic Submarine Movie Ever Made?
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/october/what-most-realistic-submarine-movie-ever-made
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312645

#movies #submarines #DasBoot

The AUKUS submarine deal was flawed from the start, and its possible collapse offers Australia a chance to rethink its defense strategy, reclaim sovereignty and pursue more practical, cost-effective alternatives. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/18/world/australia-should-hope-for-aukuss-collapse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #aukus #ausralia #us #uk #submarines #defense

“The deal, conceived in secret by #ScottMorisson’s Coalition Government, ties our security to the US and UK, for a price tag of $368bn. This includes nuclear-powered #submarines few experts believe will ever be delivered.”

How to create your own job.

Source: Australia Institute / #AUKUS

🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA
🔴 AUKUS Submarine Deal Safe Despite Trump Review

🔸 Defence Minister Richard Marles says the $368B nuclear sub deal with US & UK will proceed.
🔸 Agreement signed in 2023 under Biden; Trump’s team reviewing it but Marles is confident it won’t be reversed.

#AUKUS #Australia #Submarines #US #UK #IndoPacific

#Aukus #submarines

UK can't afford them we don't need them. We should be putting money into portacabin delivery trucks - they work better

https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/us-threatens-to-scrap-aukus-submarine-deal-j9v8c05f6

The future of the AUKUS security partnership between Australia, Britain and the U.S. — and with it Canberra’s plans to acquire American nuclear-powered submarines — could be at stake after Washington announced a review. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/12/asia-pacific/politics/australia-aukus-us-trump-review/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #australia #us #uk #aukus #china #donaldtrump #defense #submarines #indopacific

Two documentaries revisit the OceanGate sub tragedy
Nearly two years after OceanGate’s Titan submersible imploded during a dive to the Titanic, killing all five people aboard, two documentaries are bringing fresh perspectives to the disaster. But they also make clear that it’s too early to close the book on the tragedy and its
https://cosmiclog.com/2025/06/11/two-documentaries-revisit-the-oceangate-sub-tragedy/
#GeekWire #OceanGate #Science #Submarines #Submersibles #Technology #Titanic

News that the #USA is undertaking a review of #AUKUS has drawn out former Prime Minister Paul #Keating to say what we all know:

‘The Albanese government had the chance to undertake a review in its own terms when first elected to office in May 2022, but denied itself the opportunity for fear of being seen as dodgy on the alliance. Now President Trump’s Pentagon, as it is entitled to do, is subjecting the deal to the kind of scrutiny that should have been applied to AUKUS in the first instance.

The review makes clear that America keeps its national interests uppermost. But the concomitant question is: why has Australia failed to do the same?

In any case, the calling of the Pentagon review should be the catalyst for the government to get on with the job of forging a relevant, distinctly Australian path for the country’s national security, rather than being dragged along on the coat tails of a fading Atlantic empire.’

We all knew we would never see those #submarines and we should never have betrayed the #French

#Auspol

The Japanese imperial #submarines I-21 and I-24 shelled the Australian cities of Sydney and Newcastle OTD in 1942 https://toilet-guru.com/submarine.html?s=mb #WorldWarII #history

#goldendome for #Canada ?

I can think of better ways to spend #Defense money such as #troops #aircraft #submarines and #ships

It would probably escalate the #armsrace

A good read.

#cdnpoli #carney

https://breachmedia.ca/trumps-golden-dome-turbocharges-the-war-machine-and-carney-wants-us-to-pay-for-it/

#australia #Submarines #Defence

Why spend so much for redunadant submarines that hard to crew and expensive to maintain, and that are easily defeated by modern technology?

Look at what Ukraine did in Russia with drones?

New blog post: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/exploring-the-atlantic-with-frank-white/

Frank White crossed the Atlantic 18 times during WWI on a secret mission for the Bank of England. Luxury liners, submarines, maple leaves, and secret orders... A really interesting read (if we do say so ourselves...)

#banks #bank #banking #archives #history #WW1 #maritime #glam #galleries #museums #libraries #canada #EYAtravel #travel #america #US #transatlantic #UK #submarines #maple @histodons @histodon @archivistodon

#submarines From "above us the waves" to " Das Boot" to "The Hunt for Red October" to "Crimson Tide" and " Operation Petticoat" the stoic heroism of submariners has been depicted many times. Which I why I think we should put aspiring politicians in the Titan submersible and get them to visit the titanic before they are allowed to form governments.