2/28/2005: The injured USS San Francisco

GruntDoc · 03-01-2005, 01:07 AM

Wait until somebody does the math and tags this collision as the cause of the Tsunami.

Reading the original news reports, it looks like everyone aboard was injured to some extent or another. Good job saving it, and it's the rule of Navy command: you're responsible, even if it was unforseeable. That CO will get to retire, but he's probably done as for major command.

jimbo · 03-26-2005, 05:58 PM

This is an older submarine, and did not have bow planes or vertical launch tubes. The situation could have been much different if she did.

No water entered the people tank. Flooding is bad, and she might not have survived that. The sonar sphere seen in the diagram can be accessed from inside the submarine, but that hatch is of course pressure proof and is kept dogged at all time except when necessary to enter for maintenance of the computer equipment there. Entry is only made while going slow, shallow depth.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-26-2005, 07:27 PM

Hi Jimbo, welcome to the cellar.

You're saying the diagram in post #6 is not this sub, but a later design?

Elspode · 03-27-2005, 12:51 PM

I just saw a tiny piece in the KC Star Friday that said several members of a sub crew were punished for running into an underwater obstacle. Presumably, they were members of the San Francisco crew?

03-01-2005, 01:07 AM	#1
GruntDoc Provocateur Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Texas Posts: 9	Ooh, boy Wait until somebody does the math and tags this collision as the cause of the Tsunami. Reading the original news reports, it looks like everyone aboard was injured to some extent or another. Good job saving it, and it's the rule of Navy command: you're responsible, even if it was unforseeable. That CO will get to retire, but he's probably done as for major command.

03-26-2005, 05:58 PM	#2
jimbo Kinda New Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1	about SSN711 This is an older submarine, and did not have bow planes or vertical launch tubes. The situation could have been much different if she did. No water entered the people tank. Flooding is bad, and she might not have survived that. The sonar sphere seen in the diagram can be accessed from inside the submarine, but that hatch is of course pressure proof and is kept dogged at all time except when necessary to enter for maintenance of the computer equipment there. Entry is only made while going slow, shallow depth.

03-26-2005, 07:27 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Hi Jimbo, welcome to the cellar. You're saying the diagram in post #6 is not this sub, but a later design? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-27-2005, 12:51 PM	#4
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I just saw a tiny piece in the KC Star Friday that said several members of a sub crew were punished for running into an underwater obstacle. Presumably, they were members of the San Francisco crew? __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

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