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Date: Wed Aug 30 2006 - 12:16:00 EDT
Lee,
Thanks for your insight. Much appreciated.
> The skipper was relieved and others fired because there was some info
I am sure of that! Looking at the way the torpedo compartment is
buckled, bulging outward, I expect they had to cut the front end off aft
of that location. I cannot begin to calculate the costs.
> So, if they had slowed, reconfirmed their position, and checked their
> depth,... . (If they had done that, they also would have been
> late in arriving at their destination, and I can only guess
> that time pressure played into the decision not to slow
> and check...)
Same reason that caused the crash of the sub off Hawaii. The one
demonstrating an emergency blow, coming up under a japanese fisheries
school training vessel.
Age-old saying still holds: Haste Makes Waste
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