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January 28th, 2005
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| Milforum Moderator  | Post; pictures of damaged US Subfresh from the wires it is amazing only one US sailor died.  
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January 28th, 2005
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| Master Gunner | One tough sub.
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January 28th, 2005
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| No Chance Outside | How'd it happen?
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January 28th, 2005
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| Tribuni Angusticlavii | Wow, that's more damage than I thought it took. How fast was it going and what exaclty happened? Did it just slam into a cliff head-on or scrape past a big boulder or what? |
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January 28th, 2005
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| Milforum Moderator | the sub struck an under sea mountain 350 miles from Guam on 8 JAN 05 http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/27/sub...ged/index.html that's the article that went along with the photos |
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January 28th, 2005
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| Master Gunner | I'm glad the article pointed out that it was an uncharted seamount they struck. Not being a submariner, I can't make an intelligent question as to why they didn't pick it up on sonar, but I imagine there may be one. (i.e. not wanting to be found). |
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January 28th, 2005
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| Centurion  | Howd the commander not pick the mountain up on the radar or whatever? |
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January 28th, 2005
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| No Chance Outside | I think the question is, how did everyone miss it? Probably it was charted wrong on the map and they just cruised right into it thinking they had a clear path. |
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January 28th, 2005
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| Immunes | i heard the news was saying "they used outdated maps".... ----------------------------------------- this is a SSN isn't it, are they gona fix it or what? how much it's gona cost to fix this thing? 200M? mod edit: Do not post back to back. Use the edit button to add to an existing post. |
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January 28th, 2005
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| Milites Gregarius | hmm i was on a tour of a sub and apparently they spend most of their time in 'passive' where they just listen rather than sending out sonar, this could be a reason. |
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