Sub wreck

Doc

Liquid Addiction
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Not sure what happened but it sure left a mark. :eek:

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waybomb

I'd rather be blown
Bet ya the metal repair was much cheaper than whatever electronics were housed up there!
 
Found this article on the Sub it appeared to be the same sub.

U.S. Submarine Hits Japanese Tanker in Arabian Sea (Update2)

By Steven Bodzin and Megumi Yamanaka
Jan. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. military submarine USS Newport News collided with a Japanese tanker in the Strait of Hormuz near the Arabian Sea, U.S. Navy said in a statement.
There were no injuries and no damage that affected the navigational abilities of either vessel, Department of Defense spokesman Todd Vician said in a telephone interview. It's too early to establish the cause of the collision, he said, when asked how a submarine operating near a war zone could hit another vessel.
``Any time there's an accident there's a concern,'' Vician said. ``The Navy will be looking into it.''
The Strait of Hormuz connects the Persian Gulf with the Arabian Sea and is an important shipping lane for transporting oil products from countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran. U.S. forces are still fighting an insurgency in Iraq at the northern end of the Persian Gulf nearly four years after the invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein.
The USS Newport News, a 360-foot (110-meter) nuclear- powered submarine, has 127 officers and crew, according to the U.S. Navy Web site. The crash with the Mogami Gawa happened at about 10:15 p.m. local time, the U.S. Navy said in a statement. The Newport News was on a ``regular'' deployment carrying out ``maritime security operations'' under the U.S. Navy Central Command, the statement said.
Heading to Port
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd., Japan's third-biggest shipping line which owns the ship, said no oil leaked from the tanker and the vessel was heading to port for inspection. The ship, which has a crew of 24, mostly Filipino sailors, was leased to Showa Shell, a Tokyo-based refiner. It's heading to port, according to Japan's Foreign Ministry.
Kawasaki Kisen leased the tanker, which can carry 2.11 million barrels of oil, to Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., Japan's fifth-biggest refiner, under a long-term contract, the refiner's spokesman Jun Kimura said by phone today.
Crude oil the tanker was carrying belongs to a third party, Kimura said. Kimura declined to identify the company citing a confidentiality agreement.
The U.S. Navy in 2002 paid $11.5 million in partial compensation for sinking the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru a year earlier off the coast of Hawaii in an accident that left nine people dead.
The Ehime Maru sank within minutes of being struck by the 6,900-ton USS Greeneville submarine while it was demonstrating a rapid surfacing maneuver for 16 civilians on board near Hawaii's Oahu island.
Twenty-six people were rescued. The Feb. 9, 2001, incident caused anger in Japan and strained U.S.-Japanese relations.
The submarine's commander, Scott Waddle, was given a written reprimand and relieved of his command after an inquiry was told he rushed preparations for surfacing, such as failing to carry out a proper periscope search for ships in the area.
 

OhioTC18

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At first, I didn't think it was the USS Newport News. When it was launched it had the numbers 750 on it right behind the nose. The wrecked one had 28 on it. But I found another picture of the Newport News that had the same markings.

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