Whoa. Big hole. That's gonna make the DCA real cranky.
(DCA is Damage Control Assistant. Navy joke). Touchy business. Floating drydocks are, after all, designed to sink, just not quite that far. The drydock is lying on its side in 160 feet of water, so diving it won't be straightforward and raising it may be impossible. And they can't retrofit the carrier without it because they've been chopping the boilers out to replace them. Some details HERE. The concern is that the cost of the operation may make both drydock and carrier irrecoverable.
Thanks, that was an informative article. No good options here Ivan, get the pos ship out of the way, then raise the pos dry dock and cry . What an expensive snafu, terminally fubar.
Good post.
The dry dock can be refloated in time.
The problem is that the only crane that can lift new boilers into place is laying across the flight deck and the Russians don’t have the ability to lift it off and repair it.
At this time it looks cheaper to write the whole shebang off, the dry dock, crane and aircraft carrier hull and simply build all new when they can afford it.