The Chinese want to know if it really hit one of their bugs
They hit the wall at the edge of the Earth and the mermaids pushed them back...with whales and dolphins helping. That lazy leviathan just floated and laughed.
Queue the thread about all of the ship containers floating free in the ocean after falling overboard. They don’t all float at the surface.
this is the south china sea area
would not surprise me if china hadn’t changed some topography there, especially if its in an area with very tight spaces
if people have highly detailed charts regularly updated, that they are going off of for manuevers, they could be caught unawares by a deliberate object in their path
1974
My sub (Boomer) hit something on patrol in the Med (a few hundred miles east of Gibraltar) while we were at about 250 feet.
I was on watch in the torpedo room (most forward compartment on the boat). It was less of a “bang” and more of a “dull thump” and there was the slightest shimmy/vibration for a half sec or less.
Never found out what it was. Could have been a whale, some kind of percussion device, a piece of sea junk of some sort floating around at that depth. People got very excited for about 20 minutes while we checked for damage/leaks. Then back to sleep/card game.
Every now and then we had to go to “ultra-quiet” because a probable Soviet sub was detected within a few hundred yards. Underwater collisions are quite possible.
As we entered and left through the Straits of Gibraltar to the Atlantic we went as fast as we could and tried to get “lost” in the massive amount of shipping traffic noise 200 feet above us. Soviet subs would sit on either side of the strait trying to pick us up and track us.
What business is it of the Chicoms?
Unless one of their boats is missing?
Ask the two Navy queens, Admirals Levine and Kirby for their opinions!!
Bad joke coming! How do you address Adm. Rachel Levine? By shopping for her at the Dress Barn.
Check for paint from a Chinese Sub ,LOL
Godzilla
see :
US Navy Subs Detect Unidentified Speeding Underwater Crafts moving at hundreds of knots.
What U.S. Submariners Actually Say About Detection Of So-Called Unidentified Submerged Objects
Big claims abound about mysterious objects submariners detect below the waves, so we went straight to the source and what we found out was surprising.
By Tyler Rogoway January 3, 2019
China is thinking that we may have some ‘traps’ at their choke points and is trying to get us to own-up.
Lots of folks think it was a pocket of "hard water" - everybody's heard of it...
Have heard that the SCS has scrap left over from offshore oil platforms, many sunken ships, containers and is just trashy in general for undersea activity.
Once we find out the depth that the sub was stricken, then a lot of possibilities go away.
China knows where and when the ship was struck thru their sonar net. No sense in them acting as though they don’t know what happened.
Except to further embarrass the Xiden administration.
Good one.
As to the collision. What the ‘Ell is the Kraken doing in the SChina sea? Did someone forget to feed it?
Why was it even reported, and by whom?
A good book on the subject of submarine crashes is “Blind man’s Bluff”. Describes several sub misshaps incuding one I was on in April 1966 aboard the Barbel.