Navy Sub Goes Bump in the Night and Loses Its Periscope - ABC News

This is at least the third collision involving this ship. Probably the forth.
Saw it in the yard twice getting new fairwater planes and a new dome.
Had several large dents fixed from a collision with barge as well.
It's either an unlucky ship or a lucky ship.

Yeah, I thought it was the 4th time.
This ship cost a lot of CO's their careers.

Sub Chief Replaced Following Collision - Daily Press

Which vessel was it that hit a Pacific mountain at a high speed submerged run?

That was the San Francisco. It had just been refueled at NNSY prior to the accident. It will be one of two new ships at NPTU.

Wish they'd go back to naming them after sea creatures.

Sure it didn't hit Guam?
Guam is a floating Island you know.

I lived in Jacksonville for many years as a child and as a grown child.

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A poor choice of words in the headline. I truly doubt that the COB was replaced or would even have been mentioned in that article.

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To me, this is just a reminder that operating a sub is hard and requires a bunch of training.

The Naval nuclear power training curriculum/program is, from what I've seen after 13 years in Civ-lant- is far and away the best operations and maintenance training program ever devised. No one else even comes close.

-John

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A testament to Adm Rickover.

^^^. And what a tyrant he was. He had been retired by the time I went thru the program, but the stories about him were legendary. He excepted nothing but 100% compliance with written procedures, no variances at all!!

Maybe we are seeing the lack of his direction now?

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I knew a jg who eventually switched to nuke subs. (I knew him years later as a prof). He said the scariest job interview he ever had was with Rickover somewhere in Idaho. It was all about proving your character under pressure --- something few presidents and congressmen could do with regards to Rickover. Much less a young jg!

"Unable to communicate with Thresher since 0917R. Have been calling by UQC voice and CW, QHB, CW every minute. Explosive signals every 10 minutes with no success. Last transmission received was garbled. Indicated Thresher was approaching test depth.... Conducting expanding search."

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RIP

I went thru the nuke program in 78, while Rickover was still running things.

To give you an idea of how tight his standards were, not too many classes before that, it was standard policy to drop the bottom 10 percent that graduated from the classroom portion - even though they'd achieved passing grades - from the program entirely, and send them out to the fleet as conventional engineering types.

My class started in January of 78, and we were the first class even allowed to use calculators - non programmable of course.

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