clickity clickity in the big black box with your sound on.
http://safe.tumblr.com/safe/video/2509512839/500
clickity clickity in the big black box with your sound on.
http://safe.tumblr.com/safe/video/2509512839/500
Do we have to choose just one?
I got this from a shipmate aboard the USS LOUISVILLE in 1991. Our submarine was one of their "backup hitters".
Hard to believe that photo is nearly 20 years old.Hmm. What am I looking at here, Doug?
It's all external to the pressure hull, and there are drains on the tubes to make sure that the hatches aren't leaking seawater on the missile capsules. The tubes also have internal covers/liners and the area has lots of drainage. But yeah, you'd never open those hatches outside the harbor without a really good reason.Re: the Oklahoma City pic. Can you say Don't Make Waves.
There have been quite a few close calls (I don't particularly want to get into how I know that), but I hope this is still the only one:Thanks Nords. Suspected external but did not know. Somewhere in the recesses of my mind was of a US sub sinking pierside. Can't recall details or circumstances.
Today that's all handled by commercial off-the-shelf PCs!Was one of the first waterfall displays.
Gumby, M_Paquette, am I forgetting any other pierside issues? I think the USS NARWHAL submerged pierside during Hurricane HUGO, but that was done deliberately after the lines parted.
The chronology is interesting. See if you can spot the problem.At approximately 8:30 P.M. (Pacific Daylight Time), Thursday, May 15, 1969, the nuclear powered attack submarine Guitarro (SSN-665) sank while tied up to the dock at the Mare Island site of the San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard. The ship had been under construction since August 1965, and was due to be commissioned in January 1970. Sinking was caused by uncontrolled flooding within the forward part of the ship. It was refloated at 11:18 A.M. (PDT), Sunday, May 18, and after inspection damages were estimated at between $15.2 million and $21.85 million.
During the afternoon and early evening of May 15, 1969, the following events occurred at the approximate times indicated:
4:00 P.M.: A civilian construction group (nuclear) began an instrument calibration assignment which required the filling of certain tanks, located aft of the ship's pivot point, with approximately five tons of water.
4:30 P.M.: A civilian construction group (nonnuclear) began an assignment to bring the ship within a half degree of trim. This entailed the adding of water to tanks forward of the ship's pivot point, to overcome a reported two degree up-bow attitude.
4:30 to 7:50 P.M.: The nuclear group continued to add water aft.
4:30 to 7:45 P.M.: The nonnuclear group continued to add water forward.
7:00 P.M. and again at 7:30 P.M.: A security watch advised the nonnuclear group that by that time the Guitarro was riding so low forward that a one and a half foot wave action, stirred up by boats operating in the river, was causing water to enter an uncovered manhole in the most forward and lowest portion of the ship's deck. These warnings went unheeded.
7:45 P.M.: The nonnuclear group stopped adding water to the ballast tanks in preparation for their lunch break.
7:50 P.M.: The nuclear group completed their calibrating assignment and began to empty the tanks aft.
8:00 P.M.: The nonnuclear group left for lunch.
8:30 P.M.: The nuclear group emptying the water from the aft tanks and a member of the group noticed " sudden down angle being taken by the boat." At approximately the same time, the nonnuclear group and others, returning to the ship from lunch, observed in down sharply at the bow with a massive flooding taking place through several large open hatches.
8:30 to 8:45 P.M.: Efforts made to close watertight doors and hatches were unsuccessful due to lines and cables running through them.
8:55 P.M.: The Guitarro sank.
Yeah, I'll bet there were a lot of vacant leadership positions to be filled after this incident... shipyard as well as active-duty.MY BIL became the XO, I believe, of this boat after they raised it.
Yeah, I'll bet there were a lot of vacant leadership positions to be filled after this incident... shipyard as well as active-duty.