Jun 25, 2026 · 22 min · 11 segments
From The Australian, this is The Flood. The true story of 60 Australian men and women trapped in a submarine deep under the Indian Ocean when an explosion threatens to sink the vessel and send its…
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Greg SullivanGuest
Melanie EllertonGuestIn moments of intense action, our brain signals to the body to send a rush of adrenaline into the bloodstream, giving us a huge burst of energy and strength we might not know we had.
That's doubtless what was happening to Greg Sullivan and Michael Morris as they reached down into the hole in the submarine's main deck to haul Geordie Bunting up
I remember once we got him up, I pulled him over to the side and sat him down.
Also not sure if I said it or just thought it, but why are we not moving up yet as they had blown ballast.
All vessels have capacity to carry what's called ballast or extra weight to help with buoyancy and stability.
In a submarine, the ballast tanks are filled with seawater when the submarine needs to dive, and when it's time to surface, compressed air is blown into the tanks to force the water out, lightening the boat.
Even Sullivan, who was busy saving Bunting's life, was aware that the submarine was not responding as it should have to the flood.
The submarine is under as much pressure as you would design the submarine to operate at, and we've got a major flood somewhere back aft in the submarine.
When you go to emergency stations like this, you're getting ready for anything, so you're getting ready for fires and so on.
So there's people getting dressed into firefighting gear and breathing masks and, and all that sort of stuff.
So a lot going on, but all in, in a remarkably calm sort of manner I'm standing forward in the control room, but quite central, so in between the two main periscopes, which are obviously lowered 'cause we're deep.
Um, there's a lot of gear in there, but there's someone at every station and more.
So the first person I'm clocking is, uh, the XO, who is duty command, and, uh, the watch leader, just to get a sense of where they're at.
You do it without thinking, but your attention is moving around the control room.
So very quickly there's a lot of orders and reports coming in and out of the control room.
Um, they would, I think, be completely unintelligible to someone who was not understanding what was going on.
In moments of intense action, our brain signals to the body to send a rush of adrenaline into the bloodstream, giving us a huge burst of energy and strength we might not know we had.
That's doubtless what was happening to Greg Sullivan and Michael Morris as they reached down into the hole in the submarine's main deck to haul Geordie Bunting up
I remember once we got him up, I pulled him over to the side and sat him down.
Also not sure if I said it or just thought it, but why are we not moving up yet as they had blown ballast.
All vessels have capacity to carry what's called ballast or extra weight to help with buoyancy and stability.
In a submarine, the ballast tanks are filled with seawater when the submarine needs to dive, and when it's time to surface, compressed air is blown into the tanks to force the water out, lightening the boat.
Even Sullivan, who was busy saving Bunting's life, was aware that the submarine was not responding as it should have to the flood.
The submarine is under as much pressure as you would design the submarine to operate at, and we've got a major flood somewhere back aft in the submarine.
When you go to emergency stations like this, you're getting ready for anything, so you're getting ready for fires and so on.
So there's people getting dressed into firefighting gear and breathing masks and, and all that sort of stuff.
So a lot going on, but all in, in a remarkably calm sort of manner I'm standing forward in the control room, but quite central, so in between the two main periscopes, which are obviously lowered 'cause we're deep.
Um, there's a lot of gear in there, but there's someone at every station and more.
So the first person I'm clocking is, uh, the XO, who is duty command, and, uh, the watch leader, just to get a sense of where they're at.
You do it without thinking, but your attention is moving around the control room.
So very quickly there's a lot of orders and reports coming in and out of the control room.
Um, they would, I think, be completely unintelligible to someone who was not understanding what was going on.
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