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The USS Guardian arrives at White Beach Naval Facility in Japan earlier this month.
A U.S. Navy ship with a wood-and-fiberglass hull that ran aground on a reef off the Philippines was still stuck nearly 22 hours later, Navy officials said Thursday.
The USS Guardian, an Avenger-class minesweeper, hit the Tubbataha Reef in the Sula Sea at 2:25 a.m. local time Thursday (1:25 p.m. Wednesday ET), the Navy said in a statement.
The statement said no one was hurt as a result of the collision, about 80 miles east-southeast of Palawan Island.
“The crew is currently working to determine the best method of safely extracting the ship,” the statement said. “The cause of the grounding is under investigation.”
Guardian, which is deployed to Sasebo, Japan, was commissioned Dec. 16, 1989, and has a crew of about 80, it added.
A U.S. Navy spokeswoman said at about 11:20 a.m. that the ship was still stuck on the reef.
According to a U.S. Navy factfile, the Guardian has a “fiberglass sheathed, wooden hull.”
“These ships use sonar and video systems, cable cutters and a mine detonating device that can be released and detonated by remote control. They are also capable of conventional sweeping measures,” the factfile says.
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Denver bill 2, in post #2.5 you stated:
"The density of iron is greater than the density of the anchor .... that's why it sinks."
Shouldn't that say, "The density of iron is greater than the density of the water.... that's why it sinks"??????
Bingo! But why didn't you hit "reply" and put this piece of info where it really belongs?
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I know is that you guys are giving my little pea brain a headache this morning
with all of your physics lessons...There is one fact that is irrefutable though
the Captain of the boat is f..ked, his career is over…Someone has to take the
fall.
Some dude ....or many dudes have received a serious AZZ chewing over this one. I feel for the guys on that ship.
A US naval vessel with probably state of the art electronics and they can't just the depth of the ocean floor? WTF?
For sale: Polyester male navy uniforms: 5 sets of summer whites and 5 sets of winter khakis. Shirts size medium. Pants size 40-32. Comes with captain's shoulder boards and insignia. Any reasonable offer accepted.
Yeah ....for sure
Are you sure the Captain is Male. I knopw a lot of you dont want to admit this but women are now in command of war ships. I will admit as a female I am hoping the captain is male, but lets not assume here.
Just googled the ship history - and since it already has the ship aground, the last to take over as CO was male.
It was modified for M/F crew - the OOD could have been female. Maybe she didn't want to wake up the Captain to ask advice.
I don't know if I can stop laughing at this one, I can see a whole bunch of people on the coast of the Phillipines with their binoculars out pointing and laughing. :)
But they keep saying that the sea are rising faster. That would result in the reef being deeper than it used to be. The ship should have been able to float right over it.
NO, the reef used to be up right where everybody could see it!
If the Navy gets stuck on reef hell, give me what they're having :) You may as well have fun with it.
Stupidity was the cause.
Low Tide
Lack of chart software??? GPS???
YOUR FIRED
Last time I left Subic I was a little woozy too !
If you had a good port stay, you will always leave Subic woozy.
OK, whose job was it to download the latest update for the GPS? Mine? I thought it was your turn......
If they lighten the ship,either by pumping their fresh water tanks empty or pehaps throwing the duty officer overboard, the boat will float UPWARDS.
The captain better polish up his resume because his Navy career is over.
How could those people miss something so obvious?
Sincerely,
Manti Te'o
Maybe that submarine with the missing periscope can get underneath them for leverage?
I am very curious as to how many of you passing judgement have ever even been aboard a ship let alone manned it. It is so easy to sit on your computer passing judgement on others. As a person who works on a ship in Alaska, I know that there could have been any number of reasons that would cause a ship to run aground. You have no idea until the investigation has been completed.
You mean like the investigation done on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf. What a crock of ....
Ocean pirates can get it unlodged, they will take the ship and the reef.
Captain has had a bad day
I lub you no sh** buy me minesweeper!
SHlT Happens!
Look, the sonar tech was using windex to clean his screen and the dang reef snuck up on him. OK OK or perhaps the captain bet the crew he could stop the ship on a dime....er a reef. The captain won the bet and the taxpayers foot the bill. Nawwww that's no good, try this...there was a sailor standing on the bow looking over the water smoking a cig when the captain spied him from the bridge. The captain called out on the horn," YO seamen first class Jones what are you doing ?' Just then the seamen spots the reef coming up fast. CAPTAIN he shouts, it's a REEF it's a REEF. The captain turns to the sargent at arms, What did he say sargent. The sargent turns to the captain, "He said he's got some reef !" WHAT ! the captain replies...REEFER ??? I think so captain the marine exclaims. CLAMP that man irons sargent and throw him in the brig....CRUNCH !!!!
Woudn't that be Master at Arms rather than Sergant at Arms - since this is the Navy not Congress.
I think it was liberals or conservatives with too many guns. Just had to say that, this conversation was staying too WAY close to the topic.
I agree, and besides this is all Obama's (Boehner's) fault!
Actually the White House just released a statement that it is clear to this Administration that former President Bush is to blame.
Thats What Happens when Ya Mine Your Own Business!
I was so hungover I frigate where I was?
what the....???!!!
nobody blames this thingy on obama???
it's all obama's fault...
Why belabor the obvious.
As Commander in Chief, technically, it is his fault.
"The Buck Stops Here"