British Nuclear Submarine runs aground off Scotland

Sky News ^ | 10/22/10 | Richard Williams

[Vanders9]

Nuclear submarine HMS Astute has run aground on the rocks off the western coast of Scotland. The Ministry of Defence moved instantly to play down fears, saying it was "not a nuclear incident" and that it had caused no injuries.

[Vanders9]

Just great. All those years designing and building it, and within four months jolly jack tar goes and bends the bloody thing...

[Ken522]

It sucks being the OOD when that happens!

[ZX12R]

Pretty astute navigating.

[DemforBush]

I would imagine the captain will be relieved of duty in very short order (if he hasn’t been already).

[SWAMPSNIPER]

That’s the end of someone’s career!

[bmwcyle]

[wtd]

best comment at link:

vladamir putin would like to thank sky news for this information--they them selves had been trying to locate the submarine

- - with all the cutbacks in military spending & recent emphasis on multi-cultural enrichment, is this any surprise?

[ryan71]

The Brits are down to calling 4 ships a “fleet”.

On the bright side, when the muslims take over they'll have less hardware to hand over to the mother ship - Iran.

[donozark]

Looks like Captain Hazelwood finally found a job!

[wally_bert]

Hopefully, if (hope not) the muslims take over GB, the last people to leave will disable, destroy or take anything of value when they leave.

[Vanders9]

Oh yes, I would think both he and the navigator will be deskbound for the rest of their careers (if they are lucky).

[archy]

[Vanders9]

Yeah...not the finest moment of the British press.