The Submarine that Crashed into a Mountain
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- As the three-billion USS Connecticut submarine was making her way through unknown waters in October of 2021, the crew wasn’t aware that the sonar was malfunctioning, and they were very relaxed.
By the time an unidentified object was picked up by the sophisticated sensors of the US Navy submarine, it was already too late to react.
The colossal submarine hit the seafloor and its entire hull shaked with violence. Then, a brutal and empty cracking noise was heard. The submarine had just lost its nose, and it was quickly sinking…
playing bumper ships in the Pacific is a time honored tradition in the us navy
:P Bumper Boats > Bumper Cars, anyway. What's more impressive is looking at the Pacific from space. Earth looks like a freaking water world from that angle, and still we find things to plow into.
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Was when I was in. Best times of me life playing COLDWAR games with the Russkies and Chinese. Never a dull moment!😊
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See also Nathanael Greene SSBN-636 Irish Sea
1:17.......Fully submerged they can 'display' between 9,000 and 12,000 pounds,
depending on the load. Think that should say 'displace' and 9k and 12k tons.
These mistakes should not happen.
3:31.......USS Connecticut is mentioned but very old Nautilus film is shown.
I somewhat believe that many channels do this to drive engagement. It gets us commenting.
They know what they've done. This channel is notorious for it.
The bear was looking for a Klondike bar
Most expensive ice cream ever
God I love our government. "Sub it a mountain it needs 13 million in repairs." Congress well here is 50 million
Odd that you find that good. That’s money that could be utilized for more profound things right here in the USA
Could of put that 37M towards homeless and retired/injured Veterans and Personnel + families but hey... all commodities including the men who sacrifice life and limb for this morally bankrupt nation.
Nethanial Green hit the bottom after a visit to Rosyth Scotland UK. I visited her and have several "rabbits " (souvenirs) swapped with R.N bits and bobs. She survived the incident but damaged everything from forends to the bow casing. Tubes an all.
The first report of this I seen had USS Connecticut off course by a significant margin, straying into an area on the chart clearly marked as a danger to navigation at depth. Though the 'exact' location of the danger was not listed. The ship had had issues brought up in the last two navigation evaluations accomplished. Lack of training or a complete lack of care for their boat. Yes, the Captain, the Exec, and the Chief of the Boat should have gotten sacked. Also the sounder was known to be reading wrong. The day watch notified the conn, but this information was not convened to the next two watches. Because the unit was 'known' to be reading wrong the numbers recorded in the log were an issue for the investigators. I believe the C.O.B. was returned to duty with a letter.
You are wrong. The mountain was uncharted. Period.
"...fully submerged, they( Seawolf class) can displace between 9k and 12k lbs...."
FAIL.
I think the take-away here is just knowing that even though we've been braving the oceans for hundreds of years, there are huge parts of it that remain "unknown" as far as oceanographic mapping is concerned. I remember a similar incident near Guam involving the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) maybe 16 or 17 years ago. Again, faulty charts, poor navigation planning resulted in the accident. One crewman died in that accident if I remember correctly. Unlike TV, we do not have bow windows (would be totally useless anyhow) and do not use active sonar for navigation purposes. As one other viewer pointed out, "mountains do not make noise". Sad to read about though. The author had difficulty with the displacement values he was reporting. I served onboard the USS Jacksonville (SSN 699) and she displaced 9600 tons. Seawolf class is larger, which means more water volume displaced. Not sure if his 9000 pounds should have been 9000 tons, but even that number seems low to me.
Thank you for your service.💪😎🇺🇲
If you are referring to the submarine that was in the TV show bottom of the Sea The "Sea view"My father and the design crew at the Portsmouth naval shipyard in kittery Maine actually did a two and a half million dollar study on the design of the Seaview for the United States Navy to see if it could be done installing ports in the bow section of a submarine
9,000 tons does seem low. And you're correct in stating that there are large areas of the ocean that remain uncharted or only partially charted. I think Connecticut was in an area where the ocean floor is not accurately charted as was the earlier USS San Francisco. The area San Francisco was operating in was only a few hundred miles from Apra Harbor Guam according to NAVSOURCE, I have no idea where Connecticut found her mountain.
Despite the damages suffered, both subs were repaired and returned to service.
At the time I was on shore duty and we could look at the CASREPs sent out. Had a sub guy there and he could point out how bad it was.
Perhaps it wasn't on the Charts , I mean : China is busy building many new Islands to claim sovereign waters around .
934 pounds, a paper or plastic submarine, must also be filled with helium.
It's made with Helanium. Obviously 😂
There are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky 🤌
There are also more spacecraft in the ocean than there are submarines on the moon
@Derrick Bridges it could be if it tried a hard enough.
Nobody knows how many people have been lost to the ocean throughout our existence
I flew the Robert E Lee several times
Definition of the sky is anything above water?
Yeah just a spare nuclear sub dome lying around like custum ordered exclusive military naval components and parts like a surplus warehouse.
They planned 30, built three, and know the noses get broken, one extra is no surprise.
The San Fran 711 hit a mountain and survived, what the Connecticut actually hit will likely never be disclosed. But it’s a good video and good story.
Interesting point about the USS San Fransisco my uncle served on her precomissioning crew his name is on the plaque in the officers Mess
I imagine it was an alien ship is going to be the next comment lol.
👽"They do exist!"👽~The Polar Bear....
(I'll bet it went home and told all of the other Polar Bears that it nearly got abducted)
This incident sounds like a CFIT on an airplane. In both cases, plane or sub, this is usually due to pilot error and firing the top brass of this sub was the right thing to do. As with CFIT in commercial airplanes a more careful selection of human ressources might have prevented this incident. I wonder if the navy has implemented CRM on their subs. Or if the tendency to operate within a rigid hierarchical command structure has prevented or hampered this. If this is the case the navy better reassess their way of running things on subs.
IIRC the navy has adopted six sigma for a long time. Unfortunately almost as long exist the complaints that it is implemented in such way that crew, especially officers, are hyperfocused on not getting dinged for any navy defined fault. This manifests in various issues (cheating, risk adversity, briefed surprises etc.) but the most insidous one seems to be that you can be held at fault for errors by people you are, or have been, responsible for. Which means that senior people are incentiviced to protect their junors. The phrase "golden boy who could do no wrong" ends up being used when chickens finally come home roost.
In USN six sigma means the person making the error is usually removed from service or not on their carrer path (ship command) anymore, so that person can't learn from the error. But getting lessons learned applied to the rest of fleet can be tricky when doing would involve acklowledging fault with training procedure in general as then six sigma would aply to the training establishment or people ok'ing the promotion of the officer at fault...
This was actually kind of an atrocity of incompetence. CO, XO, CoB all relieved.
Sounds like they were scapegoats.
Better shot
@@irafair3015 Scapegoats my ass. They were responsible for the boat. Period. Thats how the navy works.
And then the Navy should fire the guys that gave them the command without following up their performance of duty…
@@kristiangoransson6104 Submariners, especially executive staff, are among the most reviewed and performance oriented roles in the service.
I served on the SSN 702 and SSN 705. Submerged displacement for those boats was 6,900 Tons. The SSN 711 ran into a seamount in 2005. Yes, there was one fatality, a MM2 from A Division.
@@s.porter8646 Yes, my mistake. I've corrected my post above. Thank you!
@@DifferentM14 I was on the boat in port in Guam, when they came back, we helped clean up and stand watches for a few days to get the ships force time off to recover.
@@DifferentM14 I removed mine
@@s.porter8646 It's my understanding that SSN 711 crewmembers that had stayed in Guam as well as some of the crew from the SSN 705 helped out once the boat (SSN 711) had returned to Guam. This was well after my service in the Navy.
@@DifferentM14 I was on 766, what boat were you on
As a former submariner I understand how difficult it would be to put video clips of nuclear powered submarines together for a video or documentary/video. Still I find difficult to watch when the boats on screen have no connection to the boat in question. The USS Nautilus is light years away from USS Seawolf.
Completely agreed. It's a random display of subs, including, to my very surprise (I'm French) the French SSBN Triomphant class in her berth at French naval base "Ile Longue", Brest, France. The doc shows her around 1:50 and 5:30, with no connection whatsoever with the narrative...
good vid. hadn't heard of this mishap. I'm thinking that the san francisco had a similar mishap back in 2005. same story over command, procedures weren't followed etc...
Im pretty sure USS Hartford did the same thing too. Nvm it was a collision with another ship.
Don’t forget the Ray.
"Just the tip" That's what she said...
A submerged submarine displaces its volume weight of water. Its actual weight is irrelevant. It's like a 12 vs 16 lbs bowling ball. They're the same size and displace the same amount of water.
3.5 billion and they have someone of questionable ability commanding it? Ffs
The Connecticut has been know for some time for being incompetent
Subs don't use active sonar they listen. Mountains are silent
In a past life, I worked for a company that built passive systems. The under sea floor has been mapped for decades. These clowns obviously didn't know where they were.
@philgarcia09 The Pacific is always changing and you're trained to not always trust your map for that reason thats why they have a fathometer.
What a silly comment, a cursory examination of submarine specs will indicate to you that they have both active and passive systems
It wasn’t a sonar malfunction. Submarines use passive listening sonar. Do your diligence in research. The problem was out of date and bad maps as they navigated by DR.
Americans will believe anything. 🤭🤭🤭
We use a fathometer which sends out pings to check the depth of the water
@0:46 The ships patch on his uniform is from the USS Nautilus SSN-571.
They were using a bunch of stock footage of submarines the seawolf doesn't have twin screws.
I was fishing on the Bering Sea on a large factory trawler. The first mate swallowed a sea mount while at the helm. The entire cod end was filled with mud, we drug that that net through the ocean for hours trying to flush it out of the net, It was a mud slick like I have never seen before, even after trying to get it all out, by the time we got it on deck and emptied it, the mix was starfish, cod and a gooey mud. We had to break out the fire hose to wash off the fish and spent hours shoveling and washing the deck. The factory foremen were pissed because the mud got down into the live tanks and ruined many blades in the fillet machinery. That first mate got his ass chewed and was gone as soon as we hit Dutch. The mount was charted and he had the instruments to see the sea floor. He F'ed up, at least no major damage was done, but he was still held accountable for his mistake. I can't imagine how scary a sub hitting one of those at 20 knots would be, I bet the crew was shitting their pants.
Wtf is a sea mount ang why did he swallow it? Genuine question
@@ROOSTER333 I'm guessing he means the guy drug their fishing net through a known no go area and instead of catching fish he picked up a very large heavy chunk of the ocean floor that they then drug around until they cleared enough out of the net to get it pulled back on board and still had to blast alot more out with a hose and it got down in the fish cutting machinery damaging the probably expensive cutting blades. Something like that is what I'm imagining. I could be completely wrong though.
@@bentboybbz lol, .makes sense now. My mind kept thinking the 1st mate was steering the ship and ate the wrong thing causing him to choke and go off coarse.
@@ROOSTER333 Bent boy had it right. it is a large mound off the sea floor sticking up. Trawlers drag the bottom of the ocean, the captain, or the first mate will fly the net off the bottom, or lower the net to follow the contour of the ocean floor. They can fly the net up by pulling the net in with the two net reels. There are so many sensors and scans being done for the ocean floor, any coming obstacles are picked up by the ship and the net is trailing behind at quite some distance, the first mate could have easily flown the net off the bottom, and , or, changed course, but it showed he wasn't paying attention at the helm.
So yeah, he swallowed the mound/mount and caused many delays in fishing and did damage to the factory.
I thought it was kinda funny and made for a good story when we got back to Dutch Harbor on why we lost our First mate.
@@richardjohnson4696 I imagine the processing machinery is not cheap to repair and that having to shut down and go back to port for repairs costs a lot of money in down time also. I don't know how the crew was paid but if they only get paid when they are bringing in product or a percentage of the final product they probably wanted to drop him into the fish processor "accidentally" lol plus I'm sure standing on deck blasting crap out of the nets while being soaking wet because of something that could have been avoided didn't win the guy any points either. And hey at least I wasn't completely wrong about what happened and make a fool of myself 😂
U.S. ballistic submarine suffers polar bear attack. Wait, what?
Yes that was the best part for me that grabbed my attention. I actually had a rewind it and watch it again as it was not really a polar bear it was a Russian spy in a bear costume it was all downhill after that.🤣🤣🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
@@Mr.Robert1 It's a common problem...Russian spy bears. 😂
I was conning in the South China Sea onboard USS Stockdale when this happened. We were sent to covertly escort the Connecticut back to port so as not to alert the Chinese to the situation. Twas one of the coolest and scariest things I’ve been apart of, glad no one was seriously hurt from it.
I was in sub school when it happened! Now I’m heading to the jimmy Carter in 4 days
Maybe, you know, not post about covert operations on public RUclips video comments? Especially with you know, your last name in your freaking user name? 🤨
@@jabcreationsit's pretty well known subs of both sides are in the south china sea along with surface fleets
@@jabcreations Got anything better to do than comment on something from 8 months ago that happened 2 years ago? It was a sea story, get over yourself
9000 tons, not pounds.
I thought it was human error that caused the crash. I was led to believe that the sonar was on the wrong setting leading to the sonar not picking up the ocean floor.
There were several factors most human error related. Inaccurate plotting data, lax watch standing and poor leadership where the main issues.
@Dark Seas
You've got some units messed up here. There's a big difference between pounds and tons. It's Mark 48, not Em Kay
Did you mean 9000 tons?? 👍🙋♂️🖖🏻
I've got the impression that you maby should release less videos, and instead pay more attention to proof of contents and credibility. 👍
At the moment it said there was classified and unclassified info that differed, all details I heard I assumed were wrong.
Still a great story as I listen to while eating lunch.
I am a retired QMC(SS). Your story stated that the CO, XO and CMC (COB) were relieved for cause. If the issue was navigation, why was the Navigator and the ANAV not also relieved? This is a very standard practice when there is a "Navigational Error".
QMC(SS)
USN (Ret.)
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I suppose it is possible that the navigators said they should not go there but were overruled.
Some people just post without actual knowledge. May not be the case here. Just something that I have been coming across. LT Rob United States air Force retired.
Malfunction or not..... The Captain got hung out to dry😒!!!!
This video got a bit confusing, as it appears different subs were featured. 🤷♂
I’m learning the “dark” creators are video quality over accuracy people
Every submarine except the Seawolf
I'm from Guam and remember this incident. Being an Environmental Specialist working with a company that has many contracts with the military, I built a few temporary decontamination units for the personnel working on the submarine. The crumpled nose (sonar) section was comparable to how the front of a vehicle looked after a head-on collision except the metal was in excess of 3 inches thick. If you've never seen a submarine of this size in dry dock, they're much larger than many can imagine. Prayers go out to the crew and the crew member who lost his life. May he rest in paradise 🙏🏼
No fatalities on the USS Connecticut, I think you’re thinking about USS San Francisco
You got things completely wrong here, this just happened a year ago, none of the hall of the submarine is 3" thick, and the nose of the submarine is built of fiberglass that is over the sonar dome. Don't know what you saw, but it certainly wasn't this
@@richardpaquette8352 you may be right as I wasn't able to see it up close. However, the employees from Guam Shipyard were cutting off chunks of metal from the "crumpled" area, and it was at least 3 inches thick. I remember talking with the POC when we were assembling the decontamination showers. When I asked why the piece that was being lowered by the crane looked small, he said that they had to cut smaller pieces because the metal was thick and heavy. It did look similar to the crumpled front end of a crashed vehicle, only the metal was really thick.
Can you confirm if Guam has ever tipped over?
Sub brief has a video explaining what happened in detail.
Just the tip....... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let's not all be so critical. Only a few dollars involved.
Look at how many Submarines we have cruising around 24/7 functioning solely on electronics to get around. No windows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Remember that 1960s ?
Dude I like your videos. Your research is excellent. But having imagery that is directly relevant to the commentary is important for authenticity and credibility. For example, at the beginning your talking about the Seawolf development but then your showing stock images from old docos from the 1950s.
Then at 7:13 your talking about the US Navy investigation but showing some random stock footage from a NATO meeting with Jens Stoltenberg which is nothing to do with subs. I would rather you make and show less videos but get all the imagery right.
Would have been nice if oyu included metric figures into your video. As I have stated before: it sucks to always pause the video and grab the calculator to transform this infamous imperial figures into someting understandable.
Oh, and: the displacement of a ship is given in tons, not pounds!
Yeah, this channel doesn't seem to do proof reading or listening to their takes. Really compromises their authority in the subject matter not knowing the mistakes.
@ 6:08 You mentioned the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Guam. PSNS is in Bremerton Washington. I worked there for 5 years and lived overlooking it.
Otherwise. Thanks for the video. I always enjoy these!
when needed, contractors can be flown out. happened in 2018 with the FLORIDA when our diesel ran away 3 times
It pulled into guam and was met by personnel from psns
This is a propaganda video to distract viewers from the anomalous events that have and are happening to submarines the world over. These things as described do occur, but it is always curious to me how the other TOTALLY unexplainable things never see the light of day. I was a submariner for several decades. The oceans are ALOT stranger than the world knows. Explain a crash or bump in the middle of an ocean that's several miles deep... You'll never see the completely unexplainable events logically talked about openly. The bottom line is that there is something in the oceans we can't or won't admit to publicly.
Not being Navy, I still cannot believe that no one on the crew wasn't concerned with how the ship was acting. Nope, don't believe it.
Ask any veteran. Lots of piss poor/toxic leadership in the US military. It is systemic.
It can dive deep under water and hit a under water mountain.. happened a couple of times
You are so correct ! We hit one on the old Seawolf SSN575 ! Torpedoman !
@@georgehays4908
Mr. Hays. You should have a look at Jeff today.
Dungaree jacket from the '70s tattoos all up and down his arms. Long hair like a hippie down to his belly button. No shave, not clean cut at all. Not the exact look that I go for after retiring from the Air Force I just can't do it.
@@Mr.Robert1 .........what a bum ! Lol !
A couple of thoughts... Like USS San Francisco and USS Nathaniel Green both of whom ran into a charted seamount. Seamounts are usually charted. In both of those cases, the seamounts were on the charts but were improperly annotated or were ignored the watch standing team. I have to assume the that the same is true for Connecticut. The fact is the ocean is extremely well charted. The fault lies primarily with the watch standing team. THE PEOPLE FAILED! As for damage to the ship, unlike San Francisco, that had to have the bow compartment cut off and then replaced by the one from USS Honolulu, Connecticuts damage was minimal. The important thing to remember is in all of these cases none of these ships were lost. While the loss of life on San Fransisco is sad, it wasn't any worse.
OR USS Georgia member here, COMSUBPAC as part of this operation had specifically directed for this operation a specific track and timing. The redacted report illustrates the watch team was worried about a time situation and the reason why the sub was hurrying. I think this stress of timing and probably a specific requested track is what altered the normal operation of the watch team. I to do say the Officer of the Deck, the Navigator, and the Dive Officer made mistakes on the track but I also hold COMSUBPAC just as guilty because this stinks of an operation which was not properly planned and COMSUBPAC expected the sub and commander to make up for COMSUBPAC lack of planning.
I was hoping they’d use the bow of the Cincinnati so they could call her the
USS Cin Francisco
The Connecticut was going through a not so recently charted part of the ocean in order to get to their location faster
There’s also what’s going on in Hawaii on the island of Oahu with the water contamination at the Red hill jet fuel storage tanks effecting the water at the military housing.
Around 3:30 mark there is a picture of sub 571. Isn't that the USS Nautilus? I met a former officer from it this summer. I also met the former Commodore of the Pacific Attack subs, one of whose subs, USS_San_Francisco_(SSN-711), hit an under water mountain. His story was basically the same as what is in Wikipedia with a little more detail.
yes, that's the Nautlius. It's also the sub in drydock that's shown around the same time.
Nautilus...
I keep hearing pounds when you refer to displacement. Do you mean tons?
Yes, he did.
9000lbs wow that's more than my truck lol
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Uncertainties abound in an accident, but the one constant remains unshakable: The Navy Always Lies.
I think the officers of this sub were sacrificed.
You don’t get a captain billet in a nuke sub out or a cereal box. He was fully trained. I think something was broken or faulty and they got the blame for it.
Newsflash, these waters are def not UNKNOWN to US SUBS, they transit those waters more than one would think. ITs also an area prone to huge earthquakes.😊
a military case of Costa Concordia class of sea accident...
Surprisingly, only about 20% of the sea floor is mapped.
Did anyone interview the mountain for it's side of the story?
The mountain declined comment as it wanted to stay under the radar :)
No but they didn't interview the polar bear. Turns out the polar bear was a Russian spy, wearing a bear outfit after that it was all downhill.
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@@applejacks971
Apple Jacks, this is Cheerios. What we did was Interview the polar bear immediately. Turns out the polar bear was a Russian spy, wearing a bear outfit. it was all downhill after that. I told that to your counterpart but I figured I would give you that information as well.
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"There I was, minding my own business..."
The memory of that crash must be ‘Haunting in Connecticut’
It could be the first DUI on an atomic sub.
In the late 80s, I was stationed on a submarine tender. Occasionally a boat would return in a different condition then when it left. We didn't ask, they didn't tell.
I recall one with a scope trying to be an allen wrench and another with it's towed array on deck.
By chance AS40? Plankowner here.
@@shortchange26 AS-41 USS McKee
USS Ray. Sub Squadron 4. Charleston. Fondly known as Ricochet Ray.
Wow the USS Connecticut has about the same amount of water. displacement as a Ford F350 driven into a canal!!! I wonder how they managed to do that!!! The US military is truly amazing!!!
Also the speed of a United States submarine is highly classified it's a obvious that you don't know how fast they go coming from a family that built submarines repaired submarines and actually lost family lives on the USS Thresher we know a little bit about the actual speed of the submarines the Connecticut struck the under seas mountain at approximately 48 mph just to say what the top speed of United States fast attack submarine can do one left of Sardinia naval base in the Mediterranean and appeared at North fork Virginia 72 hours later
That's insane!!
@@stephencostello3174
Who? What, When.
When just a random post no way of knowing who you are responding to.
San Francisco here let’s talk
Teddy Roosevelt carried 16 big sticks still couldn’t beat the bottom of ocean
Lots of boats have hit “things”!!
I wonder if any boats have hit shipping containers that have fallen off ships and achieved neutral buoyancy or slowly sinking. Maybe the fiberglass nose is our 5knot federally mandated bumper
601 & 665 Power & Light Dept
I'd take it on a bet they've had unreported object strikes.
I'm an old 637 class/Sturgeon nuc electrician and yardbird,
and I know we dragged bouys off station coming into Norva on the Finback.
So many sea miles on so many plastic (or steel) noses,
what are the odds eh?.
@@richardwellons5138 Nuclear Power School 7408 Mare Island S1W
Power & 💡 Dept 601 & 665
Ever since I was a kid, I always thought it was amazing how these subs could navigate under water without being able to see
“Fully submerged she can display between 9000-12000 pounds” you mean fully submerged she can displace 9000-12000 *tons* . Almost every video on this channel has inaccuracies like this.
3 months prior to this incident, she hit a pier while in San Diego. And it'll take at least FIVE YEARS for her to be repaired. The Navy has a huge backlog of repairs, while the Chinese and Russian Navy is more than prepared to inflict severe losses on naval vessels. And look at the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard. She was tied up and had access to every type of fire suppression systems available, yet she was a total loss... Why ???.. Piss poor leadership, an undertrained crew, etc. The U.S. Navy IS NOT prepared for a major naval engagement on any level....
2 plus decades in Aviation Maintenance confirms the same. It takes a multitude of failures to amount to an accident. The commercial aviation Ind req's preventive training on this subject yearly and they always use actual examples. The lack of competence by the ship's commander comes as no surprise. He blew off safety protocol & depended on failed sounding equipment. Maybe he forgot the Submarine cost 3 Billion Dollars + of Taxpayer Money ? I've seen the results of Pilots blowing off Safety Procedures & Check Lists. Ur just "Rollin the Bones" at that point and when you involve other people w/ ur stupid decisions, you need to pay the price. Ya gotta check your Ego at the door when dealing w/ other's lives and own up to your mistakes. It's a Win-Win vs Crap Shoot-Maybe Lose.
How could a malfunctioning sonar not being detected by the modern "self-diagnostic" advanced electronics on board? There should have been at least two such "highly-classified" sonars installed, and not left to chance.
Improper calibrations or settings. A diagnostic won't tell you its wrong if that's the way you set it up.
@@TrulyAmazingFeats OK thanks for info.
The video clips have become more and more nonsensical ... talking Seawolf class but showing a clip of the Nautilus? ... talking about CT review board and showing not once but twice clips of meetings with SecDef Mattis - long since retired by the time of the incident etc etc ... bottom line, as reported, the USN put an unfit Skipper in charge of one of our 3 most valuable/important Submarines - heads above his should have rolled as well as his
It was polar bear was the beginning of the end. A Russian spy in a bear costume.
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"Just the Tip" . . . . giggity.
@8:35 This guy looks like Tony Shalhoub from MIB the alien that gets his head blown off and it regrows.
No way they are going to let that boat retire. It has certain capabilities that would cost too much to implement on a different one.
... and naturally cheaper is better
This sounds like a total B.S. cover story,they likely hit a classified object then cooked up the sonar malfunction as the culprit.
When regarding the displacement you keep saying pounds but it is tons. 9000 tons submerge displacement.
I was in Washington from 05 to 07 and we had a sub next to us that had hit a underwater mountain. Killed I thing 12 or 13. Don't quote me on that but it seems to be a habit for us subs.
Can you do a recap of what happened to the the Japanese training ship Ehime Maru .
That was just awful!
Im sure it displaces much more than 9000 lbs
The excellent narrative is diminished by the out of date video illustrations.
9000 pounds? My truck weighs more than that. I think you mean tons.
I was working with a guy who'd just rotated off that boat and we saw the message traffic come in about it as it happened. He confirmed the command climate was so terrible he left the sub community for ours.
What did he mean by "... command climate ... terrible..."?
@@ltkreg It's a colloquial term for how the command team is performing. Is the leadership team great or are they toxic. Is probably the best way i can relate it to a civilian
@@steven7650 Don't mean to press too hard but how was it toxic? Was the Captain blaming everyone but himself, was there favortism ....?
@Rob Abreu the command climate is the working conditions under any military unit. Every Unit has a specified task and how the Commander goes about accomplishing that task in relation to personnel is the Command climate. Whether it's in the day to day interactions with subordinates or written SOPs. Think of it as how your boss sets the tone of the workplace environment
@@stephencostello3174 Yeah, yeah, yeah I already know all of that. You said you knew someone who left because of the toxic environment. What I mean is what did the Captain say and/or do to piss off everyone so much.
Legend has it the captain is now commanding the garbage scow USS Obama to this day.
That title is how a professional does clickbait. Holy cow. I've never tapped any link so hard. Cool story, too. Thank you!
I hope we are developing underwater drones to assist subs in navigation and tracking of enemy vessels.
That would have been nice to tell us when their ship was going to be recommissioned
While stationed in Charleston 1977, there was an SSN that also hit a mountain. Really messed up the front.
Are you sure it wasn’t a Russian iceberg?
I was on Orion until May 76, which one?
USS Ray SSN 653, 9/20/77
@@clearingbaffles That was talked about also.
My boat hit the bottom once and was stuck there for over a day I wasn’t on her yet
I served aboard submarines for 22 years! TMC/SS. This wasn't a sonar system malfunction! Simple dereliction of duty by watch standers over hours of operation of an important evolution! Given the punishments and firings handed out, that lets you know it wasn't the submarine! This crew was unsatisfactory in training before they went to sea and shouldn't have been put to sea on this mission. And there were recommendations to not allow them to go from training officers. Soundings is the key word! Soundings determine how far the bottom is from the bottom of the submarine.! Nobody over a period of several watches were updating that important evolution. The OOD's weren't noticing it. Finally it was realized too late. I commend the crew for saving themselves and the submarine!
Hooyah to your 22yrs 🫡…but how you do know the crew was unsat in training?
Just listening to the video, even though it wasn't perfect. I was able to put that together. Without any firsthand knowledge, just using basic common sense. Some people don't seem to have it anymore unfortunately. Happy that I'm retired my children are grown well taken care of thank God. I put everything behind me. LT Rob United States Air Force retired.🇺🇸🇺🇸 I always talk positive about the submarine Force. What they have to deal with I got to tell you that something that I could not do. Can't do it I need to be out in the open.
@@tonysnell3878 There's a briefing out there! I keep in communication with my submarine brothers even though I'm retired.
Lol, leave it to the US to hit a mountain with a sub. God love the Navy.
You repeated state the weight in pounds when it should be in tons. Quite a big difference there. LOL
Yea for America, billion dollar toys we will never use 🙄
Not another “underwater mountain” this is the same excuse used after the SSN Honolulu was damaged in the exact same manner. What are the chances?
“dum dum dee dum dee doo dee doo dee dum de- ** whump **……………. ……. 🤷♂️…. dum dum dee doo dee…”
and WHATH DEPTH hapend ?
I remember the first time I heard about a Seawolf class, was in the movie Down periscope, where Kelsey grammar's character at the end was given a sea wolf class instead of the Los Angeles.
The US Navy is very skilled at performing frequent and expensive mishaps... -at US tax payer expense. With a friend like this, who needs enemies?
Hardly any of that footage is of the Connecticut.
Submarines at sea are inherently unsafe. The Silent Service does their best to reduce risks. But things still go wrong. Look up USS San Francisco SSN 711’s accident
I wasn’t on a Seawolf class but that section removed is “just the tip”. It’s called the sonar sphere and it’s a free flood area.
Tubes damaged. Shock to forendies. Just a scratch. It'll buff out and be OK after a bit of Gaffer tape!🤣⚓️🏴☠️🏴☠️⚓️
Displacement is 9,130 tons not pounds