USS San Francisco Sub Damage

[Guest]

Photo of USS San Francisco in drydock, Guam, for repairs. Can't even imagine the force of the impact when it hit that uncharted undersea mountain doing 30 knots!

I know there was 1 fatality and 20 some injured aboard and that is very sad. However, I expected to see a lot more structural damage on the sub. These things are built tough!!!!

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=21183

[afd65 4]

heres another view of it shows a little bit more damage

http://www.navy.mil/view_single.asp?id=21182

[BIGRED1 71]

DAMN PDT_Armataz_09 guess they didn't notice it was shallow there

[JBE 328]

I bet the CO of that boat will get his @$$ handed to him.

[Guest pentax02839]

wow some serious damage.

[Guest]

USS San Francisco skipper relieved of command

by Marissa Borja, KUAM News

Sunday, February 13, 2005

The commander of the USS San Francisco, the nuclear-powered submarine that ran aground last month 350 miles south of Guam, killing one sailor and wounding dozens, was relieved of command in a quiet, behind-closed-doors hearing Saturday morning in Japan.  

According to the Stars and Stripes, Navy Commander Kevin Mooney was stripped of his command and issued a career-killing letter of reprimand for failing to implement "several critical navigational and voyage planning procedures."  

A Navy announcement delivered after the hearing indicated "by not ensuring these standard procedures were followed, Mooney hazarded his vessel." Cmdr. Andrew hale, Deputy Commander of Submarine Squadron 15, who was given temporary command of the USS San Francisco as the incident was being investigated, is now the skipper.  

According to the Stars and Stripes, Mooney appeared before 7th Fleet commander Vice Admiral Jonathan Greenert at fleet headquarters in Yokosuka on Saturday morning in what the Navy dubs "admiral's mast", a form of non-judicial punishment that stops short of the criminal proceedings of a courtmartial.

The Stars and Stripes further reports that Greenert's spokesman, Commander Ike Skelton, said that Mooney was also relieved due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command. At issue from the beginning has been whether Mooney had access to charts that would have indicated dangerous waters in his area.

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Six submarine crew members disciplined

USS San Francisco struck undersea rock

HAGATNA, Guam (AP) -- Six crew members of an attack submarine that struck a mass of undersea rock in the western Pacific earlier this year have been disciplined, a Navy spokesman said Wednesday.

All were found guilty at a hearing Tuesday of hazarding a vessel and dereliction of duty, said Navy Lt. Cmdr. Jeff Davis, public affairs officer for the Pearl Harbor-based Pacific Fleet Submarine Force.

Punishment included reduction in rank and punitive letters of reprimand, Davis said.

The identities of those involved will not be released because it was a nonjudicial punishment, Davis said. He also would not say whether any of the six were reassigned to other duties.

The punishments were first reported in the Navy Times.

The skipper of the submarine, Cmdr. Kevin Mooney, earlier was relieved of his command and reprimanded. The Navy does not expect any other disciplinary action, Davis said.

The USS San Francisco was on its way to Australia January 8 when the undersea grounding occurred. The submarine was conducting underwater operations about 350 miles south of Guam, and the rock was not on the ship's charts.

One seaman died of injuries suffered during the crash. Twenty-three crew members who were injured in the accident have recovered and returned to duty, Davis said.

The submarine is in dry dock at its home port on Guam, where temporary repairs are being made so it can travel on the ocean surface under its own power to another location for comprehensive repairs, Davis said.

[Guest alsfirefighter]

The rock wasn't on their charts? I guess the sonar operators apparantly weren't sweeping or someone wasn't doing their job correctly.

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active sonar is detectable. Most of the time under, they're only listenign with passive and unless that rock is talking they aren't gonna hear it