A short glossary of sub-speak that defines 'Red Sounding':
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/icerun/glossary/
A real-life submarine grounding incident:
http://starbulletin.com/2001/08/29/news/story3.html
I also found this, using a Google search:
Here's a story that happened before I got to the boat, but was related to me by some of my shipmates on the USS Pintado (SSN-672).
The boat was pulling to Pearl for the very first time after overhaul as part of it's change of home-port. As the ship was getting ready to make the turn past Ford Island and head into the piers, the following 1MC's were heard:
Fathometer watch: "Red Sounding!"
1MC: "Red Sounding!"
> OOD on 7MC to control: "All back Full!"
> 1MC: "Corpsman lay to control"
The Navigator had been so stressed out over the initial entry into Pearl that when the Red Sounding got called, he just passed out over the chart table.
