Crewman Dies Aboard U.S. Submarine That Ran Aground

Reuters ^ | 1/9/05

[MeekOneGOP]

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks for the news.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!!!

[FBD]

Interesting map here. question to the experts here:
Do submariners have many close calls with sea volcanoes?

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/SOEST_News/News/PressReleases/AGU2003/ChallengerDeep.GIF

[Caipirabob]

Ping! To someone in "the know"...

[sweetiepiezer]

Prayers for all, so sad.

[theFIRMbss]

>A sandbar in the middle of the ocean?

[bmwcyle]

I was on a submarine. Training is so important. In shallow water, the sonar tech on the fathometer and a quarter master on the charts to navigate the narrows of the deep is a developed skill. You can have your most experienced awake all the time.

[luvie]

May Sp. Ashley rest in peace. Prayers to his family and friends who mourn his death.

[windchime]

Prayers for Zack, crew members and the family of the lost sailor.

[Rebel-without-a-pause]

I remember doing a test on that ELF system when I was on a boat out of Charleston (USS Grayling (SSN-646)). It worked. I was a radioman then. Don't have radioman anymore. Shame!!!

[brooklin]

I still stand by my statement, except it should have said, that this was caused by the earthquake.

[brooklin]

I could have been wrong about the store in New Castle. There does seem to have been a flux in the space/time continuum.

[FreedomCalls]

Asia quake shifts Virginia, U.S. well-water level

Updated: Mon. Jan. 10 2005 1:47 PM ET

RICHMOND, Va. — The South Asian earthquake that spawned deadly tsunami waves also shifted water levels by at least 3 feet in a geologically sensitive Virginia well some 9,600 miles away from the epicenter, researchers say.

The well near Christiansburg, which started oscillating about an hour after the magnitude 9 quake near Sumatra on Dec. 26, is particularly sensitive to movements in the Earth and is monitored by the U.S. Geological Survey.

David Nelms, a groundwater specialist with the USGS in Richmond, saw the changes from his computer.

"It just shot up and then it went down below where it originally was," Nelms told the Richmond Times-Dispatch for Saturday's editions, adding that it took about five hours for the water to stop fluctuating.

The USGS tracks water levels around the country, and has monitors at 21 wells across Virginia, primarily for drought.

The Christiansburg well, in the western part of the state, also shows regular, but small, changes caused by tides.

[MEG33]

Interesting!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/10/nuclear.submarine.update/


Officials: U.S. submarine hit undersea mountain

[BykrBayb]

I knew it! I knew it!

[MEG33]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/10/nuclear.submarine.update/


Officials: U.S. submarine hit undersea mountain

[2111USMC]

Thanks for the info Meg33.

Prayers up for all of our service personnel.

[Jet Jaguar]

Thanks MEG

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Thanks for the ping!

Pan_Yan, I've been out this week (business trip to Alamogordo, NM). I pinged you because I wasn't sure if you've heard the latest. There's always a few sub groundings every year, but this one is really bad (1 dead guy, 23 injured w/ some in critical condition).