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http://www.marinelink.com/news/washington-submarine414168.aspxThe ballistic-missile submarine USS Louisiana and a Navy offshore support vessel collided while conducting routine operations in the Strait of Juan de Fuca off the coast of Washington state.
yortsed snacilbuper
(7,939 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,764 posts)No periscope? No radar?
A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)I don't get the impression that the US Navy is too terribly tolerant of these kinds of things. A few years ago a Sub surfaced under a Japanese fishing boat near Hawaii. That was about the last day that Captain was in charge of anything.
sdfernando
(4,897 posts)It wasn't just a surface, they were doing the emergency surface where the nose comes up out of the water very fast...like a breaching whale....all because some dignitary was on board and they wanted to show off. They didn't do the due diligence and ensure there were no other vessels around before the maneuver...people on that boat died.
Here is the wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision
A HERETIC I AM
(24,321 posts)Check out the Wiki page on it. She ran aground in Saipan later in the year after the Ehime Maru collision, and 5 months later collided with the USS Ogden off the coast of Oman!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Greeneville_(SSN-772)
cloudbase
(5,487 posts)That's not considered a career enhancing occurrence.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Post hoc ergo prompter hoc fallacies are also costly.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Yay Bangor!