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Originally Posted by schlechter pfennig
You say there wasn't anything that could have been done. Why didn't they go to back emergency on the starboard screw?
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US subs are single shaft.
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That may have helped produce enough of a wash that it'd lifted the tug up and over.
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The tug sank as a result of a very large hole being torn in its bottom. Look at how fast it sank in the video. There's no way you can lift a tug high enough to clear the stabilizers.
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More importantly, why the heck did they do a personnel transfer without being at dead stop?
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Security reasons. There's 24 nuclear missiles onboard. Even surface ships don't stop in the middle of the ocean when they're performing an UNREP.