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| An explosion which killed two British submariners was caused by "systematic failures", a coroner has ruled. | An explosion which killed two British submariners was caused by "systematic failures", a coroner has ruled. |
| Anthony Huntrod, 20, from Sunderland and Paul McCann, 32, from Halesowen in the West Midlands, died aboard HMS Tireless during an exercise in 2007. | Anthony Huntrod, 20, from Sunderland and Paul McCann, 32, from Halesowen in the West Midlands, died aboard HMS Tireless during an exercise in 2007. |
| A self-contained oxygen generator (Scog) blew up while the submarine was under hundreds of feet of Arctic ice. | A self-contained oxygen generator (Scog) blew up while the submarine was under hundreds of feet of Arctic ice. |
| Coroner Derek Winter said he would write to the government urging action to avoid a similar incident. | Coroner Derek Winter said he would write to the government urging action to avoid a similar incident. |
| HMS Tireless, a hunter-killer class sub, was sailing under the ice pack 170 miles north of Deadhorse, in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, when the accident happened. | |
| The two mechanics were trapped in a forward escape by the explosion. | |
| Post-mortem examinations revealed Mr Huntrod died from multiple injuries and Mr McCann of carbon monoxide poisoning. | |
| Mr Winter, the Sunderland Coroner, recorded a narrative verdict saying "systematic failures led to the contamination and damage" of the oxygen generators on board "which in turn caused the explosion". |