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US Nuclear Sub Crashes Into US Navy Amphibious Vessel

Posted by timothy on from the all-in-the-same-gang dept.

Kugrian writes "Showing that it's not just the British and the French who have trouble seeing each other on the high seas, a US Nuclear submarine yesterday crashed into a US Navy heavy cruiser. The USS Hartford, a nuclear-powered attack submarine, was submerged as it crashed into the USS New Orleans in the strait of Hormuz, resulting in the spillage of 95,000 litres of diesel fuel. Both vessels were heading in the same direction when the collision occurred in the narrow strait and were subsequently heading to port for repairs. A spokesman for the 5th Fleet said that the USS Hartford suffered no damage to its nuclear propulsion system." According to the USS New Orleans' Wikipedia page, it's actually an amphibious transport dock.

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  1. Re:Oh sure... by Joolz50 · · Score: 5, Funny

    The navigator was constantly refreshing /. trying to get first post

  2. Why so negative. by rackserverdeals · · Score: 5, Funny

    You guys are so negative.

    The headline should be "US Navy perfects underwater stealth technology."

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    1. Re:Why so negative. by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 4, Funny

      I hope you understand that there are things Sailors can't talk about

      What goes on in the fan rooms, for example ;)

    2. Re:Why so negative. by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Funny

      Reports from the sub indicate an 82 degree roll was taken at the time of impact.

      Now that's what I call a waste of perfectly good coffee!

    3. Re:Why so negative. by bitrex · · Score: 3, Funny

      Everybody knows that the keys to successful submarine navigation - first you activate the passive sonar on the hull, then you deploy the towed array, and then you watch the waterfall display and try to figure out which one of the tracks is the true bearing and which is the false bearing, then you gotta play around with the Fourier transform of the screw noises on the other display and fiddle with it a bit because the computer is alternately suggesting that the contact is either a fishing trawler, a supertanker, the USS Ronald Reagan, or an Udaloy class destroyer, and where ARE those active sonar pings coming from? And then you get frustrated, hit "Display All Real" from the tactical map screen and discover you've frantically fired five torpedoes and a cruise missile at an active sonar buoy dropped from a low-flying plane an hour ago.

    4. Re:Why so negative. by Runaway1956 · · Score: 3, Funny

      A Chief Petty Officer aboard any destroyer will NOT spill one drop of his coffee, even when the ship executes a 360 degree roll. If he did, he would be banished to a carrier.

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  3. Re:Oh sure... by narcberry · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds serious, I mean 95,000 gallons of oil spilled into the ocean.

    Oh wait, it was litres? Oh well that's like monopoly oil, we'll be alright.

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  4. Re:they weren't the only ones asleep at the switch by oldhack · · Score: 4, Funny

    "usually Slashdot is pretty quick to get the news but his happened yesterday folks"

    That was true back when slashdot was in paper edition, but since they switched to this new-fangled website thingy, it just haven't been the same.

    One day, my lawn will have a real grass instead of this painted-over green dirt.

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  5. Re:Oh sure... by PhrostyMcByte · · Score: 5, Funny

    The captains were trying to re-enact the Battlestar finale.

  6. Re:Oh sure... by MrKaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    This is the cover story, but what *really* happened?

    They were re-charging their di-lithium crystals from the nuclear wessel so they could save the whales.

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  7. Re:Oh sure... by shogun · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm guessing the above should probably be modded -1 (Spoiler).

  8. wink wink; nudge nudge; say no more, say no more by Scrameustache · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope you understand that there are things Sailors can't talk about

    We won't ask, and you won't tell.

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  9. An aside: by mblase · · Score: 4, Funny

    Because the surface ship is expected to not see the boat.

    Rosencranz: "I've frequently not seen the boat."
    Guildenstern: "No, no. What you've seen is not the boat."

  10. Re:Oh sure... by dgatwood · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't believe Gaius Baltar is Admiral Adama's father!

    Sorry. It had to be done. :-D

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  11. Re:wink wink; nudge nudge; say no more, say no mor by Eighty7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Q: What is long and hard and full of seamen?