28.01.2005, 11:32
Zitat:saturn5 posteteTrotz meiner vorhersage, anscheinend hat die Karriere des Komandats den Unfall doch noch überlebt. Der U-Berg war nicht auf den karten zu sehen.
Das Boot ist zwar gerettet, aber die Kariere des Komandants ist sicher gesunken.
Mehr info wie ein solches Unfall passieren konnte:
Uncharted sea mountain seen in 2004 images
Satellite images of the area where a nuclear submarine grounded three weeks ago clearly show a wedge-shaped undersea mountain that stretches across more than a mile of a desolate expanse of the South Pacific, the New York Times reported in its Sunday editions.
Military officials have said the mountain, which rises within 100 feet of the surface, was not on the navigation charts that the Navy uses. One sailor was killed and 23 were injured when the submarine, the USS San Francisco, rammed the mountain at high speed on Jan. 8.
The satellite images, taken in 1999 and early 2004, suggest that the mountain is part of a larger range of undersea volcanoes and reefs, the Times reported.
Besides relying on charts, submarines also receive fixes from navigation satellites and take soundings of water depths. Officials told the Times that the San Francisco’s officers have said they took a sounding just four minutes before the crash, and it indicated that the vessel was still in 6,000 feet of water.
It is possible that the San Francisco could have detected the undersea mountain if it had used its active sonar system. But since early in the Cold War, submarines have avoided using active sonar, which emits loud pings that can give away their location. Even on training missions, they practice operating silently and rely on passive sonar systems that can detect only ships and other objects making noise.