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U.S.S. Harry S Truman carrier collides with a merchant ship while preparing to enter the Suez Canal- supposedly no below waterline damage to either ship


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Posted
2 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Unless said surface ship had previously been a submarine. 

All submarines are surface ships, all surface ships are submarines once, but some surface ships can be submarines more than once.  

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Posted
8 minutes ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

First Look at The Damage to USS Harry S. Truman Sustained in Collision At-Sea

 

i have bad news.  it appears we build our carriers out of foam.

That's nothing that 20+ million will not fix.

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Posted
4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude.  You must not know any mexicans.

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$500 or so should cover it.

I have it on good authority that we don't have those anymore. And unless we are taking the thing to a Korean shipyard, we don't have the available capacity to make any repair quick or cheap. 

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Posted
7 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude.  You must not know any mexicans.

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Cream Hardener? Most of the time it hardens by itself right on the bedsheets

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Posted
20 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

First, "dhow" sounds like a word describing a type of woman.  And in that case, JFK plowing her sounds entirely plausible.

The first time I came across a picture of a "dhow" was when I was an early teen perusing Kathy Ireland in the "Kenya Top This?" SI Swimsuit edition.

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Internet sleuths are pretty sure the collision was just aft of her starboard quarter elevator. Here's what she looks like when not damaged, impact area circled

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Posted
2 hours ago, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

First Look at The Damage to USS Harry S. Truman Sustained in Collision At-Sea

 

i have bad news.  it appears we build our carriers out of foam.

Well, duh.  How do you think they get those behemoths to float?

 

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Posted
12 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Internet sleuths are pretty sure the collision was just aft of her starboard quarter elevator. Here's what she looks like when not damaged, impact area circled

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Steel Beach? On the taxpayers' dollar? Not no more.

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Posted
18 hours ago, blacklab said:

Shit floats

My experience is that it has variable buoyancy based on liquid and gas content, just like certain type of maritime vessel.  Even has a similar tapered shape.

Posted
2 hours ago, Captainant said:

Internet sleuths are pretty sure the collision was just aft of her starboard quarter elevator. Here's what she looks like when not damaged, impact area circled

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2 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Steel Beach? On the taxpayers' dollar? Not no more.

Swim call is a high-risk/low-reward evolution that has been naturally phasing out as fewer and fewer COs are willing to assume that risk.  It's a minimal morale boost that could turn into a shitshow if a Sailor were to drown.  That said, I'm glad I got to do it a couple of times during my career, once over the Mariana Trench. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, Captainant said:

Internet sleuths are pretty sure the collision was just aft of her starboard quarter elevator. Here's what she looks like when not damaged, impact area circled

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Are you sure that’s not after the collision, because it looks like it’s leaking seamen.

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Posted
3 hours ago, Guadaloopy said:

 

Swim call is a high-risk/low-reward evolution that has been naturally phasing out as fewer and fewer COs are willing to assume that risk.  It's a minimal morale boost that could turn into a shitshow if a Sailor were to drown.  That said, I'm glad I got to do it a couple of times during my career, once over the Mariana Trench. 

Shit, I had a captain on the Enterprise that saw port visits as a risk that should be mitigated by having as few as possible. Fuck that dickhead. 

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Posted
21 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Shit, I had a captain on the Enterprise that saw port visits as a risk that should be mitigated by having as few as possible. Fuck that dickhead. 

Well, when the guy in the red shirt dies every time...

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Posted
11 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:


Are you sure that’s not after the collision, because it looks like it’s leaking seamen.

They're just excited.

Posted
15 hours ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Shit, I had a captain on the Enterprise that saw port visits as a risk that should be mitigated by having as few as possible. Fuck that dickhead. 

We had a port call to the Philippines cancelled because the North Koreans threatened to attack during one of the war games.  After the war game was over.  Our CO had the choice of us pulling into Busan for a week over Christmas or stay out and do tracking on vessels.  His reasoning "it's too cold on Korea.  Y'all wouldn't enjoy it."

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Just now, FartingMonk said:

We had a port call to the Philippines cancelled because the North Koreans threatened to attack during one of the war games.  After the war game was over.  Our CO had the choice of us pulling into Busan for a week over Christmas or stay out and do tracking on vessels.  His reasoning "it's too cold on Korea.  Y'all wouldn't enjoy it."

Our CO's rationale was effectively "if we don't go to port, sailors can't do dumb shit that might hurt my chances of making admiral." He hated reactor division because he was CO when the Eisenhower ORSE cheating scandal happened. Looked it up, here's the dickhead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Mewbourne

Posted
6 minutes ago, Schulz2.0 said:

Our CO's rationale was effectively "if we don't go to port, sailors can't do dumb shit that might hurt my chances of making admiral." He hated reactor division because he was CO when the Eisenhower ORSE cheating scandal happened. Looked it up, here's the dickhead.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dee_Mewbourne

We had that issue in Guam.  They wouldn't put out liberty until 6 PM.  And then secure liberty at 10 and tell the sailors not to do anything stupid.  The basically gave us 3 hours to drink as much as we could 

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Posted
3 hours ago, FartingMonk said:

We had that issue in Guam.  They wouldn't put out liberty until 6 PM.  And then secure liberty at 10 and tell the sailors not to do anything stupid.  The basically gave us 3 hours to drink as much as we could 

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On 2/14/2025 at 11:28 AM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

First Look at The Damage to USS Harry S. Truman Sustained in Collision At-Sea

 

i have bad news.  it appears we build our carriers out of foam.

No idea if this is why, but seems like it would make at least some sense to fill every nook and cranny with foam to make it more buoyant in the event of disaster

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Posted
On 2/14/2025 at 11:28 AM, SuingToGetAMessageBoard? said:

First Look at The Damage to USS Harry S. Truman Sustained in Collision At-Sea

 

i have bad news.  it appears we build our carriers out of foam.

No biggee … that blemish will buff out.

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Ward Caroll You Tube info on the incident.

 

for those that dont know, Ward Carroll is a (very) retired former F14 backseater.  he actually interviewed the Captain of the Truman before they left for this deployment , and he includes some of that interview in this video.

 

The guy Ward brings on is leaning towards the collision's fault (according to rules of the ocean) being The Truman.  Along with the news that it looks like none of the Navy ships were pinging their ALS at the time of the collision.  

 

obviously under normal circumstances we dont want the Navy pinging the world where they are exactly.... however, this is a know anchor chokepoint, and anyone with eyes can literally see an aircraft carrier is transiting or about to transit the Canal.

And the lack of ALS being active in a congested shipping lane was determined to be a key reason for the two separate incident collisions of the destroyers  U.S.S. Fitzgerald and John S Mccain that occurred near Singapore & Japan in 2017

 

main discussion on how the collision occurred starts around the 4:15 mark.  per-deployement interview of the Captain starts around the 26:45 min mark

 

 

 

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