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on: July 02, 2019, 02:34:53 PM
« Last Edit: July 02, 2019, 02:36:58 PM by mirth »

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Reply #1 on: July 02, 2019, 07:52:28 PM
Sorry for the losses, a sad thing. Too early for an, 'Aquaman' line so I'll hold off... for now.  :waiting:

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Reply #2 on: July 02, 2019, 08:13:00 PM
It is a human tragedy when sailors of any country go out to sea, not to return alive. My deepest sympathies to the families and surviving colleagues

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Reply #3 on: July 03, 2019, 06:44:26 AM
This is something like the sixth ship fire and dry dock disaster recently for the Russian navy.
Hard to believe that only forty years ago Sergei Gorshkov set his sights on becoming the new naval power on the world stage.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.


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Reply #4 on: July 06, 2019, 08:30:06 PM

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Reply #5 on: July 07, 2019, 08:19:00 AM
Another story came to mind about subs.  There was an old E-8 Chief at SWOS in Providence, RI back in the 70s.
He had been on destroyers in the Pacific and decided to try subs.  (He shuddered when asked why he made the change.)
They used an old S boat from before World War II, to do some training dives outside of Newport.  One time a bunch of fresh ensigns were taken out to see if they were comfortable with the claustrophobic conditions.
While going out to deep water, the boat went through a squall and the bridge crew put on foul weather gear.
After diving, the wet gear was sent back to the engineering space and hung up to dry.  One of the youngsters was in the engine room to observe.  He found the wet gear was a distraction.  They were hung on a wire that went from the starboard side of the space across the walkway to the port side.
Now when a boat dives, it is pressured by the surrounding water and the hull contracts and shrinks.  The wire was taut when the boat was on the surface, and when the boat dived, the wire sagged.
The kid didn't know this and the sagging wire, with the wet gear, was making it hard to see everything.  So, being an enterprising young officer, he fixed the sag by tightening the wire.
This was fine until the boat began to surface.  As the water pressure decreased on the hull, the hull expands.  Since he had taken the slack out of the wire, it could only stretch and became tauter and tauter.  Finally, the wire parted.
Both ends flew apart and smacked on the metal surfaces.  The CLANG-CLANG echoed throughout the hull.
Submariners live in terror of equipment failing under the surface, and of pipes breaking.  "What was that?"  "Do we have a breach?"
"Blow all ballast!  Emergency!  Surface-Surface!"  All accompanied by the unique "OOGA-OOGA" siren that is loud enough to wake anyone sleeping off watch.
Sailors like to act like they have everything under control.  When something like a strange metallic ringing goes through the boat, they are working with terror breathing down their necks.
This wasn't that far from where the Squalus sank.  Swede Momsen was able to get a diving bell to the wreck and saved half of the crew.  He was a very unique engineer.
When they had successfully surfaced, and it was found that the strange noise was the wire breaking, the kid heard words that were not usually spoken.
He decided subs weren't for him.

"These things must be done delicately-- or you hurt the spell."  - The Wicked Witch of the West.
"We've got the torpedo damage temporarily shored up, the fires out and soon will have the ship back on an even keel. But I would suggest, sir, that if you have to take any more torpedoes, you take 'em on the starboard side."   Pops Healy, DCA USS Lexington.