Lose a few sailors or flood and sink the entire ship? Would the Enemy Media be happier if she had been sunk and all souls were lost?
Probably.
*SPIT*
Well, if I understand the purpose of compartmentalization, it is that you seal off each area so that flooding will not sink the ship.
Yes, there will be some sailors, possibly alive, in flooding compartments. That saves the whole ship.
“Would the Enemy Media be happier if she had been sunk and all souls were lost?”
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Of course it would——then it could blame Trump.
Professional keyboard warriors disgust me——they ALWAYS criticise behind the safety of their PCs.
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The safety features installed on our ships, however advanced, cannot account for every foreseeable danger or circumstance.
My heart breaks for these shipmates and their families. I do not in any way minimize the loss of life. That said, my read of available reports is that had they not set "zebra" on that part of the ship, the ship would have been lost, along with many more lives.
Another illustration of the abject leadership failure by the CO is the Fitz.
The sailors trapped had AT LEAST one minute to get out of their compartment...and for some reason did not.
Perhaps they didn’t take the GQ call seriously. Even after the ramming and flooding.
This is something they should have more class than to report. Not only does the media have no journalistic skills any more, they have no class either.
Anyone that has read even one book about a ship sinking knows that must be done. Even common sense tells you it must be done. It is not something that needs to be talked about.