It wasn’t supposed to be a submarine.
Nor is this design ship a fast Littoral combat ship- which this officer formerly served on two (one now decommissioned) which is powered by Rolls Royce waterjets up to 54mph in a Sea State 3 (a large jet ski iow with cannon, and rocket launchers). The USS Fort Worth is still in service and much improved over the decommissioned USS Freedom which this officer served on both, and then as a nuclear power officer on the USS Roosevelt (the carrier which had to dock in Guam because of massive Covid infection contracted with a harbor visit to... DaNang Vietnam ( a place filled with Chi=Com agents). The Roosevelts Captain was relieved of command for major security violations (yapping to the San Fran press about “we aren’t at war with CHina” kind of crap). Relieved by President Trump through the SecNav. An entire Carrier Strike Group shut down for more than a month in a mission critical area (probably bio-attacked) traversing the S. China Sea from Vietnam.