It is sonar’s problem is they didn’t hear it (unlikely).
It is fire controls problem if they didn’t track it (ie Hawaii) and the officer of the deck’s for not keeping the big picture in his head.
In my 8 years as sonar supervisor aboard three SSNs, the closest I got to this was coming to periscope depth along side a large cruise catamaran off Hawaii. Bit of a shock to both the office of the deck, and those on catamaran, when the periscope was broke the surface 100 ft away. Luckily we were on a parallel course. Of course we went deep quickly and retried later.
I had a similar experience when I was on Shark, coming up to PD off Baha Mexico came through the layer and Boom..hi SNR trace, I grabbed the mic and told the OOD “recommend 150 feet” and they responded. had to poke the nose up through the layer as 90 ft to get the trace back and analyze it. Turns out it was a Fishing trawler about 800 yards away. Our OOD loved us that night! lol
It is sonar’s problem is they didn’t hear it (unlikely).
It is fire controls problem if they didn’t track it (ie Hawaii) and the officer of the deck’s for not keeping the big picture in his head
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Well, they said it was an exercise. Maybe the SSN ‘purposely’ hit the CG in order to knock out the Sonar - thus helping making the SSN ‘invisible’.
Can’t relieve me, that is my story and I am sticking to it.
Of course that is like swatting flies with a howitzer.
And we should be able to afix blame on Bush...<:
Believe it was the Greeneville that ‘got’ the fishing craft off Hawaii....