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Originally Posted by Growler
Or... did someone forget that one end of the pump goes outside the boat?
The San Francisco story always made me sad - they seemed to try everything to get their critically injured shipmate (MM2c Ashley) off the boat, and it just wasn't enough (I got this out of an issue of Undersea Warfare, but I'll be damned if I can find it now). That must've rocked that crew pretty hard, especially in light of the disciplinary actions that followed.
And while I understand the Navy taking a dim view of seamanship accidents, the skipper of that boat deserved more credit than I think he got, CDR Mooney used issue charts, and, unlike surface ships who could reasonable be expected to see "areas of discolored water," it's not like you're gonna run a nuc on the surface at flank speed.
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We were underway when we got the news of what happened to the San Fran. Needless to say we were all shocked when we heard how bad it was, and relieved when they made it to port. We pulled into PH a little later and I got a chance to call home and everyone at home breathed a sigh of relief that I was ok. I was reading a post here today that has the DOOW's account of what happened, here it is.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...&postcount=140