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The issue of the navigator - was he on duty at the time? There should be - at all times - someone somewhat qualified in naval navigation in the control room or near enough to be useful. I know in US subs they use an inertial navigation system as a backup, so perhaps the on duty person simply had to have specific qualifications?
We don't have enough detail to know whether slamming the navigator is proper or not. However, the on duty sonar team (and its more than one surely) should be heavily dealt with if they (as a group) were not at their station. Its important to remember though that one guy out of the group not there is acceptable - the sonar lead may have cleared him to the head or something.
The devil is in the details - which we don't have.
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