* Damon Agretto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > The Navy has a tradition or policy that whenever a ship runs aground, > the captain is ultimately responsible for whatever is going on in his > ship and will loose his command. Normally, this is a career killer by > itself (commands are fiercely competitive), and if it was an error of > judgement... > > We'll probably have to wait and see what the investigation says > though, but some of the preliminary information I read is that the sub > was running at high speed (30+kts) and at that speed the sea mound > would be invisible. Plus the sub was operating in sea lanes that were > not fully charted.
So it wasn't that he had the bad luck to hit an uncharted undersea mountain in an area that was supposed to be charted. Rather, he was going at a reckless speed in uncharted waters? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
