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To: submarinerswife

Judging by the looks of the picture, those guys are lucky to be alive. The pressure hull section aft of the sonar dome is really tore up good.


103 posted on 01/25/2005 5:57:43 PM PST by judicial meanz
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To: judicial meanz
The pressure hull section aft of the sonar dome is really tore up good.

This is speculation on my part but I'd have to think that the sonar dome absorbed the bulk of the impact and that the pressure hull wasn't torn up. I'll have to defer to the people who would know to correct me if I'm wrong on this.

As someone said earlier, it's hard to imagine that a surface ship could withstand an almost instant decelleration from 30+ knots to near 0. That had to have been one he!! of an impact. Thank God the outcome wasn't any worse than it was.

109 posted on 01/25/2005 6:20:36 PM PST by Bob
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Can't see the port side, but the pressure hull actually starts a bit aft of the visible damage. You can see the MBT-2 vents at the top of the pic; MBT-3 is the only one in the forward group that surrounds the pressure hull. I'll bet they can fix this baby.


112 posted on 01/25/2005 6:34:56 PM PST by Doohickey ("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
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