[image] Update: USS Connecticut Hit Uncharted Underwater Seamount The worst way to determine the position of a previously uncharted seamount is to run into it underwater. That is apparently what happened to the Seawolf-class attack submarine, USS Connecticut, when it hit an object while …

There were no goats on the Mount (see Larson cartoon)

I was told by sources on here that she hit a trawler that is now on the bottom?

[image] neutralobserver: a trawler that is now on the bottom? Right next to the rock that was ejected from the Marianas Trench!

I wonder if this is relevant? Metallurgist admits faking steel-test results for Navy subs A metallurgist in Washington state has pleaded guilty to fraud after she spent decades faking the results of strength tests on steel that was being used to make U.S. Navy submarines. …

I agree. I’m puzzled how they could have detected the seamount without making a noise but its been 50 years since I was around this sort of thing.

[image] Hogsnort: how they could have detected the seamount The crunching sound as the front falls off is very distinct. :wink:

You got me there. Navigation by Braille is not recommended.

Looks like they weren’t being vigilant enough. Some kind of “flir”? No. They don’t refer to it as “blind man’s bluff” for nothing. Cheers, QMC(SS) Ret.

[image] Jeffrox: 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 LI…

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.

Update: USS Connecticut Hit Uncharted Underwater Seamount

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Update: USS Connecticut Hit Uncharted Underwater Seamount

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