there were two incidents that day one at about 1335 hours and the mine at around 1530 hours. See spot reports for march 1969 at kerry.com site...that's my thought...
[The battle damage released by Sen. Kerry's campaign describes the PCF-94 as a near disabled wreck; with screws curled, loss of power in its main engines, wiring shorted out, radio's knocked out, etc. (See Official Copy Here) The only problem with this damage assessment is that it is describing the damage that the PCF-3 had suffered by a mine, and not Sen. Kerry's PCF-94. In fact, PCF-94 ended up towing PCF-3 back to its port, and if it had suffered the damage described it would have also needed to be towed.
Furthermore, the damage report clearly states "PCF NOT CAPABLE OF EXECUTING MARKET TIME PATROL." If Kerry's PCF-94 was so badly damaged that it could not even execute a patrol, then how in the world was it able to tow another damaged PCF? Why, with other undamaged PCF's on the scene, a already severly damaged PCF is slected to tow another severely damaged PCF? This is clearly a false report and Kerry's "band" knows this to be false because several of them were there.]