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DrQuest:Intercept, is that a new form of possibly being in denial?
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jphdiver:Strange stuff does happen out there though. On a shake down cruise after a time in the shipyard at Mare Island, my submarine "hit" something that stove in a part of the outer hull. The story given to the press was that we probably hit a tree trunk or a shipping container. Back in drydock whatever we hit managed to put a crack in the outer hull dead amidships and about 5 feet below the waterline.
Tree trunk indeed. :no
We are very fortunate that we didn't lose a whole sub full of sailors and officers, but one was killed, several injured severely, and can you imagine the emotional trauma of being that deep when the collision occurred? I doubt that any one them thot they'd see daylight again at the time...jhbryaniv:
DandyDon:I, too, wonder why the thread was started now, long after the accident, but Jh gave us a link to a very interesting coverage. Anyone else read all of it...??
We are very fortunate that we didn't lose a whole sub full of sailors and officers, but one was killed, several injured severely, and can you imagine the emotional trauma of being that deep when the collision occurred? I doubt that any one them thot they'd see daylight again at the time...