Posted on 11/25/2018 5:41:30 PM PST by robowombat
The U.S. Navy expects one of its officers to be questioned as part of an investigation into the collision of a Norwegian warship and a commercial oil tanker this month in one of the Scandinavian nation’s fjords.
The American officer, who has not been identified, was onboard the Norwegian navy frigate as part of a military personnel exchange, according to U.S. and Norwegian officials. The sailor’s role on the ship remains unclear.
The Nov. 8 incident ultimately sank the 439-foot Norwegian warship and left several people injured.
Norwegian naval officers beached the vessel — the KNM Helge Ingstad — in an attempt to save it, but the frigate sank five days later after the cables holding it in place snapped. The tanker it struck, the Sola TS, was nearly twice its size at 820 feet. It suffered only minor damage.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
He or she?
Why not IN BETWEEN..?
Ah, INTOLERANT, huh..?
“He or she?”
Weird. It’s almost as if the article goes out of its way to avoid disclosing.
Well as the famous Greek historian Thucydides may have said “A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.”
Officers blew off the warnings, thinking they were just a drill.
Isn’t the point of a drill, to pretend it’s not a drill, for practice and/or evaluation?
Another article said the frigate’s crew was predominantly female and that 4 out of 5 navigators were female. The military purposely made it so in order to prove females could do the job men had always done. The frigate has been subject to newspaper articles for that reason.
Oh this story is so freaking funny!
Well all the good stuff is the top part, so it’ll be just fine once they dry the rest of it out.
Duh ... maybe they don’t know!
The American officer, who has not been identified ...
He or she or trans?
One plus is much harder to get pregnant so as to dodge duty like happens in our Navy. Sounds like one heck of a Sapphic love boat....potentially.
Not sure what is meant by “5 navigators” on a frigate. We had one ship’s navigator, the responsible officer, and several supporting enlisteds.
$4 billion is a lot of coin in Norway.
Why does that matter?
Damn. So damage control is foreign to the Norwegian Navy ? Just how big of a hole was caused by the collision? Especially if they had had a couple days to work it. Unless the ship cracked in half, they should have at least maintained some sort of watertight integrity. Need pictures and more info, but I would suspect some half assed efforts were applied to damage control.
From some pix I saw it was a BIG hole into the
engine room, starboard side.
Starboard side of tanker bow.
A real cockup.
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