USS San Francisco Grounding

Originally posted 0629 08 Jan:

According to this report from CNN.com, the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) grounded during submerged operations south of Guam, and has now surfaced and is heading back into port. While we call this a "grounding", it actually means the submarine hit the ocean floor while operating submerged. The report also says many crewmen suffered head injuries, so it sounds like they must have smacked the bottom pretty hard. More later...

Update: Here's a BBC article that shows the approximate location of the grounding. From this better chart, it looks like they grounded near the Caroline Islands somewhere close to Yap. It looks like they had just returned from a short deployment in December, so this was probably their first underway since then...

My favorite tin-foil hatters at DU are blathering on about the grounding here...

Staying at PD...

posted by Bubblehead @ 10:04 AM