PivA is the key!

It sucks to be hungry no matter where you are. It might be okay for the party elite. It sucks for 95% of North Kor.

They’d have to get their hands dirty and show abilities we don’t know if they have are not. They ain’t gonna do it for NK.

But what you DO know is pretty horrifying: that entire families can vanish into prisons, that your neighbors are constantly monitoring you, and the amount of Chinese and South Korean media circulating in the country (never mind radio) means that it’s extremely hard to be completely sheltered.

Oh the pedantic differences a comma can make...

There have been a few throughout history who have escaped either via blow and go, an escape capsule (Komsomolets, 1 survivor) or with assisted breathing devices (USS Tang, German U-3 et. al, later determined to probably have killed more than they saved). So, it’s a low likelihood, but it has happened in the past.

Same question I asked....LMAO

They don't and they wouldn't if they could. It's China.

God, as if it didn’t suck enough already to be North Korean, then this happens. Poor guys.

200 ft is definitely too far to surface from unless you are an experienced free diver. Those guys learn to go into some sort of meditative state to conserve oxygen. Even so, you are talking serious decompression surfacing from that depth, and that’s if your lungs don’t explode on the way up.

From what I understand it’s the same effect as altitude hypoxia. I was fortunate enough to go through training in the altitude chamber in the Air Force and in my experience you just get progressively dumber and sleepier without really realizing it, at least until they made me put my O2 mask on. It seemed pretty…

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there has never been a successful rescue from a sunk boat. currently alive or dead, they are in their tomb.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Terrible-H…
The crew of the Squalus was rescued from 240 ft. in 1939. It’s an amazing story.

USS Squalus in 1939. 33 sailors were rescued using the McCann Rescue Chamber after bottoming in ~240' of water.

This probably isn’t a popular opinion in these parts but what the heck. I hope that, if this crew has met their end, it came swiftly and without suffering.

Trying to sneak up on fish?

Snorkeling?

The USS Squalus:

Cite me an example of a successful sub rescue that didn't occur within swimming distance of the surface. Sub events are catastrophic.