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Offline Turnsky

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Offline Thorn

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I bet whoever was driving that thing will be cleaning the ****ters for the rest of his navy career.

 

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Offline Nico

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Well, that shows that those things don't sink quite as easily as movies would want to make you believe, at least :p
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Offline IceFire

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Ouch.  Yeah for sure...

I remember a tour of the Norfolk US Navy yards back a few years ago.  One of the ships was in drydock and the tour guide told us that the destroyer had hit a mine on the bow and that the blast had broken the hull all the way along the spine of the ship.  They hauled it back to Norfolk and the ship was looking good as new.  So I imagine give it some time and this Los Angeles class sub will be spick and span :D
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Offline Flipside

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There goes the no-claims bonus.... :nervous:

 

Offline Corsair

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Well that isn't very pretty... I hear the longevity of the captain's career is subject to the results of the investigation into the accident.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Sandwich

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Was this that sub that had run aground due to shifts in the ocean floor from the earthquake?
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Offline Flipside

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I think this is the one where the Pilot got his Degrees and Radians mixed, not certain though.

And as for the Sea-floor shifting due to Earthquakes, well, don't they look where they are going now? The US didn't spend Billions of dollars on passive Sonar for it to be switched off :p

 

Offline Corsair

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This is the sub that ran into the seamount that apparently wasn't on any of the charts.
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Flipside

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So, what this boils down to then was that the silly buggers weren't looking where they were going...

 

Offline Corsair

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Well you can't really see much out the front of a submarine, y'know?
Wash: This landing's gonna get pretty interesting.
Mal: Define "interesting".
Wash: *shrug* "Oh God, oh God, we're all gonna die"?
Mal: This is the captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulence and then... explode.

 

Offline Flipside

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Windscreen Wipers, I've been saying it for years...

Seriously though, one Ping would have saved 'em, it not like rocks lurk around waiting to mug passing Submarines ;)

 

Offline Nico

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Or maybe they crossed some unidentified submarine creature of doom, and they're trying to cover the fact that our oceans are actually inhabited by the spawns of the Ancient Gods.
Beware when Cthulhu opens R'lyeh's gates, he could slam the door in your face :p
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Rictor, you are weird.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill

 

Offline StratComm

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Yeah passive sonar doesn't pick up non-moving objects (it only listens for other ships' drives, IIRC) so it wouldn't "see" a change in seafloor terrain.  Active sonar would have, of course, but the whole point of an attack submarine is to sneak up on its target so when on manuvers it's not actually that likely that the crew would be allowed to ping.  That said, it's actually bery fortunate that the sub hit the mountain dead-on, since there's a lot of bulkhead between the sonar cone on the nose and the pressure hull.  Had it somehow been a glancing blow, I doubt the ship would have been so lucky.
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Offline Night Hammer

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did anyone die in this?
Stop... Hammertime :hammer:

 

Offline Flipside

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No, no-one was hurt, just rather embarassed.

 

Offline StratComm

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No, one sailor died and another 60 injured.  It would have been from the impulse of slamming into a mountain at 30 knots, not drowning, but there were casualties.
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