USS Miami SSN755 to be Deactivated

[CTU_Clay]

USS Miami SSN-755 to be Deactivated

Rear Adm. Rick Breckenridge laid out details of the submarine's deactivation in a conference call with reporters a day after the Navy announced plans to scrap instead of repair the Los Angeles-class attack submarine.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/navy-uss-miami-inactivation-wont-195200657.html (http://finance.yahoo.com/news/navy-uss-miami-inactivation-wont-195200657.html)

[Oberon]

A pity, but not surprising given the current fiscal situation.

[Red October1984]

WHOA WHOA WHOA!

I'll take it if they don't want it... :hmmm:

[Wxman]

It is the only 688i that's been decomissioned.

Scrapped due to severe damage by a fire.

Originally the Navy reported that the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner, used "to clean worksites on the sub after shipyard workers’ shifts," sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside the vacuum. On 23 July 2012 a civilian employee Casey J. Fury, was charged and confessed to starting the fire in order to "get out of work early". Fury admitted to setting the 23 May fire, having ignited some rags on the top bunk of a bunk room. Fury was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.

I s'pose someting like that could happen to a B-2, eh?

[Oberon]

It is the only 688i that's been decomissioned.

Scrapped due to severe damage by a fire.

Originally the Navy reported that the fire started when an industrial vacuum cleaner, used "to clean worksites on the sub after shipyard workers’ shifts," sucked up a heat source that ignited debris inside the vacuum. On 23 July 2012 a civilian employee Casey J. Fury, was charged and confessed to starting the fire in order to "get out of work early". Fury admitted to setting the 23 May fire, having ignited some rags on the top bunk of a bunk room. Fury was sentenced to over 17 years in federal prison and ordered to pay $400 million in restitution.

I s'pose someting like that could happen to a B-2, eh?

At least when a 688i catches fire it causes $450m of damage rather than $2.2b :hmmm:

[Wxman]

Yeah, and they'll get their $400 million out of a submarine vacumer guy too, eh?

[Onkel Neal]

This man cost the Navy a submarine
http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/us/navy-submarine-lost/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130807200516-06-uss-miami-c1-main.jpg

I cannot believe they would ever let him out. Make him work off the debt.:stare:

[Red October1984]

I cannot believe they would ever let him out. Make him work off the debt.:stare:

That'd be a llllooooonnnnnggggg time...

What kind of idiot starts a fire on a submarine. Even though it was in port....just think...fire in a metal tube.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? :nope: Yeah...he "got out of work early" that day...Hope you like Prison. :dead:

[Kaye T. Bai]

Ah, so he was a DoD civilian (or something along those lines). I was wondering why an enlisted man would do that do his own ship. Well, it's a shame, but what can you do? Times is tough, man. :(

[Wxman]

Man torches $400 million nuke sub; Navy's budget struggles for air (http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/us/navy-submarine-lost/index.html?hpt=hp_t1)
By Emily Smith, CNN
updated 9:11 AM EDT, Thu August 8, 2013

...On Tuesday, the Navy announced that despite the demand for attack submarines being "as strong as ever," the Miami is being inactivated. The reason: Under sequestration, the federal government's forced budget cuts, the Navy simply can't afford to make the repairs.

"The type of damage was unlike anything we'd seen in recent memory," Rear Admiral Richard Breckenridge, director of undersea warfare, said on a Navy Live blog post. "The anticipated scope of work is four times greater than any previous submarine repair due to damage," the post continued...

...Fury also admitted to starting a second fire at the dry dock three weeks later, according to federal court documents. The second fire was started in an area underneath the submarine where Fury was working. In both cases, he told investigators that he started the fires because he was having extreme anxiety and was trying to get out of work, according to federal documents...

...This is the second warship the Navy has lost this year. The USS Guardian, a minesweeper, ran aground on the Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines in January, damaging an estimated 43,000 square feet of the UNESCO World Heritage site. To prevent further damage to the reef, salvagers had to cut it into pieces to lift off. It was struck from the fleet in February.

[Glock30Eric]

This pisses me off.

I hope USN could remove the classified material on the sub and then to set it up for a museum.