Emergencies and World Disasters
Dragged Under at 02:17: How a Submarine Sank Four Fishermen
23 min•14 september 2026
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Dragged Under at 02:17: How a Submarine Sank Four Fishermen
Fear of unseen danger: a Royal Navy submarine running a Perisher exercise struck a trawler’s fishing gear at 02:17, capsizing the 55-foot Antares and killing all four crew-how did sonar readings merge two vessels into one contact, and why did no search begin for nearly eight hours?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that night in Bute Sound, who was aboard the Antares and HMS Trenchant, and which procedural failures and equipment issues shaped the outcome; could different detection or stowage of safety gear have changed what happened?
Person: Jamie Russell
Person: Billy Martindale
Person: Person: Dugald John Campbell
Person: Person: Stewart Campbell
Event: Collision between submarine and trawler lines
- Antares was a 55-foot wooden pelagic trawler built in 1965 and weighing 34 tons.
- The incident occurred at 02:17 on 22 November 1990 in Bute Sound.
- HMS Trenchant was operating submerged at about 60 metres depth during a Perisher course with six student officers aboard.
- Trenchant’s passive sonar tracked four surface contacts but registered Antares within the same sonar return as the nearby trawler Heroine.
- No authority started searching for the missing fishermen for nearly eight hours after the Antares sank.
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Fear of unseen danger: a Royal Navy submarine running a Perisher exercise struck a trawler’s fishing gear at 02:17, capsizing the 55-foot Antares and killing all four crew-how did sonar readings merge two vessels into one contact, and why did no search begin for nearly eight hours?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that night in Bute Sound, who was aboard the Antares and HMS Trenchant, and which procedural failures and equipment issues shaped the outcome; could different detection or stowage of safety gear have changed what happened?
Person: Jamie Russell
Person: Billy Martindale
Person: Person: Dugald John Campbell
Person: Person: Stewart Campbell
Event: Collision between submarine and trawler lines
- Antares was a 55-foot wooden pelagic trawler built in 1965 and weighing 34 tons.
- The incident occurred at 02:17 on 22 November 1990 in Bute Sound.
- HMS Trenchant was operating submerged at about 60 metres depth during a Perisher course with six student officers aboard.
- Trenchant’s passive sonar tracked four surface contacts but registered Antares within the same sonar return as the nearby trawler Heroine.
- No authority started searching for the missing fishermen for nearly eight hours after the Antares sank.
To listen to this podcast ad-free and access premium episodes, try our subscription with a 14-day free trial at obomedia.com.
© 2026 OBOMEDIA. All rights reserved.
This episode and its content (audio, text, and related materials) are the exclusive property of OBOMEDIA and are protected by applicable copyright laws. Reproduction, distribution, editing, or commercial use, in whole or in part, without prior written permission from OBOMEDIA is prohibited. For permissions, licensing, and business inquiries: [email protected].
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