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British submarine accident caused by oxygen-creating device: US
0 Comments | AFP, March, 2007
LONDON (AFP) — An accident on board a British nuclear submarine that killed two crew members and injured a third was caused by the explosion of an emergency oxygen-creating device, US military officials said on Thursday.
The accident occurred while HMS Tireless, a hunter-killer submarine which does not carry nuclear missiles, was under the ice cap in the Arctic Ocean during a joint exercise Wednesday between the Royal Navy and the US Navy.
US Navy spokeswoman Lieutenant Li Cohen told AFP that a self-contained oxygen-generation candle, part of the air purification system, exploded, causing the accident.
The British Ministry of Defence (MoD) said, however, that the vessel was "never in any danger".
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