Here is a public diagram:
It doesn't take much extrapolation to infer redundancy and emergency systems as required.
Posted on 01/08/2005 3:19:47 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
HONOLULU (AP) - A nuclear submarine ran aground about 350 miles south of Guam, injuring several sailors, one of them critically, the Navy said.
There were no reports of damage to the USS San Francisco's reactor plant, which was operating normally, the Navy said.
Jon Yoshishige, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, said the Friday afternoon incident is under investigation and the 360-foot submarine was headed back to its home port in Guam.
Details on the sailors' injuries were not immediately available. The sub has a crew of 137, officials said.
Military and Coast Guard aircraft from Guam were en route to monitor the submarine and assist if needed, the Navy said.
Guam is a U.S. territory about 3,700 miles southwest of Hawaii.
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On the Net:
U.S. Pacific Fleet: http://www.cpf.navy.mil
AP-ES-01-08-05 0343EST
Sh*t, just reading this headline - whoa.
Wiki has it already,eh?
Someone didn't waste any time, did they
Here is a public diagram:
It doesn't take much extrapolation to infer redundancy and emergency systems as required.
Try about that amount of time on the surface under gale conditions (impending typhoon) after 8 days in Hong Kong with most of the crew half hung over. Almost no one was able to go a watch without making at least two trips forward ...
The day I qualified DOOW, I could have shown you on the Equalibrium Polygon (SSM Vol 7) why it is physically not possible, especially since we shitcanned all the fat boys you would need in the middle '90's. 8^)
Boomer: Boomerang. Always returns to the same port.
Especially since some of that diagram shows stuff not required, and the stuff that is required is duplicated on the port side.
Why so fast. If it was perfectly calm, we were never going that fast.
Didn't ever "pass" an ORSE.
Was M-Div for engineroom steaming and core fill, flush, hydro's, RCA on our pre-crit inspection, had three years in EB trying to build the d*mn thing. 5 years, 6 different shipyards and two subs - and less than 6 weeks at sea. Heck, I was destiend for repair duty even before I got to a sub school: had 4 months pre-com duty and launch crew on 698, and finished prototype early, and then got assigned "work order paperwork officer" even before I got out of S1W.
.... Does that count? 8<)
Five more years overhauling the buggers at Mare ISland - That's when I got familar fixing the 575 and finally decomming and towing the 575 and a little on the 571, fixing the 683 and 687, and fixing 688's and regular 637's.
Had probably 3 years total sitting on solid-solid charging pump pressure control while at EB, NNSY, and Norfolk NSY. Saw more ways of keeping a reactor solid than most others probably ever needed to, including 1-way and 2-way valve op water flask floats and conventional air bubbles in the pressurizer. Was in four years before we ever had our first "shutdown to hot standby", and kept a bubble in the pressurizer!
Its a bit difficult taking a coolant sample when you're solid-solid, what the ELT drains has to get immediately replaced by the charging pump. A 2 degree drop in the outside temperature cools the reactor compartment, and that cools the primary, and that reduces primary pressure several dozen psi!
What is not required?
MCPs
I got out in '97, and drinking to excess was still heartily endorsed.
We pulled into Pusan and had to leave that evening due to a typhoon. Left about 25% of the crew. We went to Okinawa but the "lost" crew went to Japan. They then headed to Okinawa but we had to pull out due to, you guessed it, a typhoon. We lost another 20% in Okinawa.
I often wondered why I returned to the boat on each of the evenings before we had to pull out.
OTOH, Just a few weeks before my discharge, I returned to the ship after a day in the Subic Bay and was awakened about 5 am the next morning and told that the ship was leaving due to, you guessed it, a typhoon and I had exactly one hour to get off the ship and report to the base. Two days later I was on a plane headed to California.
My heart goes out to you. Spent 2 years in the yards, hated every day of it. I'd rather remove my right fella with a cork screw than go back to the yards again. I even volunteered to go out to sea, no one understood why I was so happy to be underway.
We needed them.
Yes, it's a diagram.
But that ain't what installed on the 688's (as far as reactor and auxilary and engineroom cooling systems go), and it doesn't show where the suction and discharge valves are, and it doesn't show HOW the things are really cooled that you were worried about, so it's irrelevent to the discussion.
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