𝕌𝕂 ℕ𝕦𝕔𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕊𝕦𝕓 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝟙𝟜𝟘 𝕠𝕟 𝔹𝕠𝕒𝕣𝕕 ℕ𝕒𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕝𝕪 𝔸𝕧𝕠𝕚𝕕𝕤 𝔻𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕪 𝔻𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣 ℤ𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝔻𝕖𝕤𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥.

The British Royal Navy narrowly avoided what could have been the most catastrophic disaster since World War II, thanks to a last-minute rescue.

An old Vanguard class vessel carrying Trident nuclear missiles with 140 crew members on board experienced a massive malfunction that almost had a fatal ending. The ship’s depth gauge failed while it was on a route mission in the Atlantic, reports the Sun, citing its naval sources.

The sub was about to go on patrol when the dials noted its depth became non-operational, thereby indicating that it was heading towards its crush depth, when engineers spotted a second gauge and raised the alarm.

“That hadn’t happened. The sub wasn’t supposed to be there, and it was still diving. And if it had carried on going, it doesn’t really bear thinking about,” a source told the newspaper.

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