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2006-08-04 Home Front: WoT

SSBN USS Nevada damaged after snagging tow-line

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Posted by Dar 2006-08-04 11:42|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Well, there's one more Captain and command staff who are taking up turkey farming. The rule is that if *anything* bad happens, for *any* reason, it is a career ender.

Damned unfair. But them's the breaks. Too many contenders waiting in the wings for their jobs.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-08-04 14:12|| 2006-08-04 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2 when it caught and severed a 500-foot line between the tugboat Phyllis Dunlap and one of two barges ........Tow lines commonly dip below the surface of the water

Ok, if the line is 500 feet long, then if the tug and tow were right next to each other, the maximum depth the line could reach would be 250 feet. Figure under way it could be a parabolic curve of maybe 100 - 125 feet max? The sub might expect a fishing trawler to have a net that deep, but would they think a tow line would be? Any sub guys reading today?

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-08-04 14:45|| 2006-08-04 14:45|| Front Page Top

#3 interesting that i have to read the 'burg to find out what happened right out my back door....

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-08-04 14:51|| 2006-08-04 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Tough for the Captain, but when somebody has op control of that many nukes, he gets to live under a microscope.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-08-04 16:33|| 2006-08-04 16:33|| Front Page Top

#5 When this happened more than likely both the tug and the barge weren't moving. No motion, no noise. Subs only use active (i.e. pinging) very rarely (under ice, in minefields) plus being in the Sound (no pun intended) probably was a high background noise day. The line was slack enough to hang down to snag the sail at below periscope depth. This would not be a career ender for certain unless the review board found that there was dereliction of duty or just plain sloppiness allowed by the Captain to creep into ship's operations.

Posted by Almost Anonymous5839">Almost Anonymous5839 2006-08-04 21:01|| 2006-08-04 21:01|| Front Page Top

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