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FYI from a former submarine sailor:

If the gouges are too deep into the metal, the boat will be decommissioned. There is no way to repair that, short of rebuilding the entire back half of the ship from the beginning. If they did try to repair it and it failed, you lose the entire crew and the boat too. Too much to lose,

Same thing happened to the USS Nathaniel Greene when it grounded coming out of Holy Loch a few years back. They decomissioned and scrapped it after observing the damage to the forward part of the ship and determining the hull integrity had been compromised.

Sort of doubt if they will decom it, ever heard of hull cuts to replace the damaged area. Hate to say it, but the San Juan hit the that boomer back in 1998, they just cut out the portion of the hull and kept it in service. They do all of the necessary NDT testing and such to make sure it's good to go. I've been to LaMad many times, and that's one are you DO NOT want to run aground, nothing but rock.

But I can't imagine crossing from LaMad to Groton in December on the surface. What a miserable ride that would have been.