# Update: USS Connecticut Hit Uncharted Underwater Seamount
**URL:** https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242
**Category:** Maritime News
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242 "2021-11-03T22:31:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/21 "2021-11-12T21:20:20Z")
> [@Jeffrox](#):
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> Some kind of “flir”?
Maybe a green laser LIDAR system, they are good for a couple of hundred meters in seawater in the right conditions but someone had better have their finger on the jog button and both eyes on the display or whammo!
If the boat is doing 10 knots and the LIDAR range was 100 meters they would have about 20 seconds to avoid the obstacle.
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### Author:  [@George\_Lee](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/George_Lee)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/22 "2021-11-13T22:18:15Z")
No “Goats”; however ‘MBLU’s’ should have been “awarded” to those on “watch”. A, “Master of the Bastard Lash-Up”. would have been a fitting award for several of those watch keepers.
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### Author:  [@freighterman1](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/freighterman1)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 6:11am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/23 "2021-11-16T06:11:08Z")
Did we know that USS Connecticut was not the only sub to hit a seamount? USS San Francisco did the same in 2005. Hit it at 30 kts and surfaced to tell the tale. My God, they build them tough. Good photo of the result in this article from Popular Mechanics. Hopefully not behind a paywall.
> **[15 Years Ago, a U.S. Navy Submarine Ran Into a Mountain](https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a24158/uss-san-francisco-mountain-incident/)**
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> The USS San Francisco didn't sink, and that's no accident.
(Pop Mech has great articles on naval stuff. Keeps it simple.)
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### Author:  [@dbeierl](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/dbeierl)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/24 "2021-11-16T13:24:07Z")
IIRC they took the bow from another one that was building to repair this one.
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### Author:  [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 1:35pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/25 "2021-11-16T13:35:59Z")
> [@freighterman1](#):
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> Hit it at 30 kts and surfaced to tell the tale. My God, they build them tough.
Hit with a glancing blow that cost $88 million and took 3 years to repair.
Word on the docks is Connecticut will probably be scrapped because we don’t have the resources to repair it. This has or will become a huge political football and a source of amusement for the Chinese.
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### Author:  [@Jughead](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jughead)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 1:43pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/26 "2021-11-16T13:43:35Z")
> [@Steamer](#):
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> Word on the docks is Connecticut will probably be scrapped because we don’t have the resources to repair it.
Now here’s an opportunity for Australia to get a submarine nuclear power plant to train our submariners in the technology prior to us getting operational SSNs. Park it at our sub base and lend us a few instructors. US submariners love it here. Spread the word.
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### Author:  [@Steamer](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Steamer)
#### Post date: [November 16, 2021, 1:51pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/27 "2021-11-16T13:51:06Z")
That makes too much sense and denies politicians kickbacks for bringing port barrel products to their campaign contributors.
Kind of a neat idea though, it could drive a big alternator as a load that feeds the grid.
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [December 7, 2021, 9:38pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/28 "2021-12-07T21:38:43Z")
Heading home under own power apparently:
> **[USS Connecticut Receives Preliminary Repairs in Guam - Naval News](https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/11/uss-connecticut-receives-preliminary-repairs-in-guam/)**
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> The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-class submarine, USS Connecticut (SSN-22), hit a seamount in the South China Sea on October 2, 2021 and propelled itself back to Guam for damage assessment and repairs. According to USNI News, USS Connecticut has since left...
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### Author:  [@ombugge](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/ombugge)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2021, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/29 "2021-12-17T13:41:52Z")
USS CONNECTICUT (SSN 22) Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarine coming into San Diego - note obvious damage to bow - December 12, 2021
Photo: Warshipcam
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### Author:  [@Jeffrox](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Jeffrox)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2022, 11:13pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/30 "2022-01-02T23:13:59Z")
Lasers, interesting thought. I wonder how a laser would propagate through different layers of temperature, salinity, and biologics? Maybe DARPA knows!
Whether surfaced or submerged, high-tech or bare bones, “prudence” should be embraced by all mariners.
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### Author:  [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/31 "2022-05-25T12:25:33Z")
13 posts were split to a new topic: [Navy releases report USS Connecticut allision with seamount](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/navy-releases-report-uss-connecticut-allision-with-seamount/63175)
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### Author:  [@Kennebec\_Captain](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/Kennebec_Captain)
#### Post date: [May 25, 2022, 12:40pm UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/update-uss-connecticut-hit-uncharted-underwater-seamount/61242/32 "2022-05-25T12:40:11Z")
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