This incident as told so far is disgusting beyond explanation. How much of this Sumitomo contract money came back to the dimokrats? Shaving the specs is the only explanation for this clusterflock. We’ve been putting this non-skid stuff on decks for nearly half a century. Nothing new about it and nothing complicated. Somebody watered down the mix. And maybe didn’t prep the steel deck as req’d. There have to be sign-offs.
And how the bleep did these jerkopfs from Sumitomo get the job anyway? The ship is a non-nuke so maybe the source stuff gets looked at a little less closely but back in the early 70’s I blackballed these guys from trying to supply steel pipe for Nuke sub work. They pedalled some pipe to our federal supply system without specs/certs/anything and it simply didn’t meet fedspecs let alone nuke specs. My supply guys got absolutely clear instructions to not send me any foreign sourced steel pipe especially Sumitomo. This is walk-the-plank kind of stuff and I’ll be listening to hear who gets fed to the sharks.
I hear you!
Usually the Japanese shipyards do a pretty good job with the repairs they do. I sailed in Independence back in the late nineties and they kept that old boat running. We did have a non-skid issue on our last cruise but that was because we were given a 4 day notice to get underway for what turned out to be a 5 month deployment.
You’re making the assumption that no one in the logistics system was bought. This is the New Federal Supply System. That’s the Chicago Mob. The Navy should consider itself lucky it wasn’t old motor oil.