[iconoclast]

See if I got this straight ... these guys totaled a gaziilion dollar sub by running it into a mountain, and they're heroes?

[WildTurkey]

See if I got this straight ... these guys totaled a gaziilion dollar sub by running it into a mountain, and they're heroes?

They brought it back to port. Yes, they are heros.

[Boot Hill]

"See if I got this straight ... these guys totaled a gaziilion dollar sub by running it into a mountain, and they're heroes?"

While on a mission ordered by the Navy, and traveling a route directed by the Navy, you take a 160 men in a 7,000 ton sub traveling at 35 knots and collide head on with an uncharted underwater seamount at a depth of 525 feet and you still manage to surface the vessel and return to home port with the loss of only one life, then you bet your sweet ass, these guys are heroes.

You should be ashamed for having asked.

--Boot Hill

[mylife]

Grrrrrr!

[IonImplantGuru]

See if I got this straight ... these guys totaled a gaziilion dollar sub by running it into a mountain, and they're heroes?

Educate yourself, Bozo, before you spout a comment like that. Read this entire thread or scan through the several other threads about the San Francisco incident.

My opinion, as an 11 year submarine vet? You're f***ing aye ditty bag, these guys are heros. Naah, I'll modify that slightly: these guys are superb submariners that got a nasty surprise, could have lost their boat and all hands, but dealt with the casualty and got their boat back to home port.

God bless 'em all.