USS Guardian (MCM-5) aground on reef in Sulu Sea

[Fog]

This has been posted on Yahoo News and other services. It's possible the ship has already re-floated on the next high tide. No injuries or apparent damage to ship - just a bad day at sea for the captain.
Being a techno-retard, I am unable to cut 'n paste the article, but it's on a number of news sites.

 

[phrogpilot73]

Being a techno-retard...

We got your back.

 

[Fog]

We got your back.

Thanks. Yo' da man . . .

 

[scoober78]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/18/world/asia/navy-ship-aground/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Whoops. Maybe they were swinging by to check out the diving...

 

[scoober78]

MODS! Please delete...sorry...just saw the other thread.

 

[phrogpilot73]

No worries, threads merged.

 

[BigRed389]

Was gonna post a bit earlier today, but that latest pic pretty much says it all.

 

[helolumpy]

Should we merge this thread with:

http://www.airwarriors.com/community/index.php?threads/another-skipper-relieved.38645/

 

[exNavyOffRec]

At least they didn't do damage to the ship like the USS Lamoure County did back in 2000, I read the initial damage reports on her and wow.

 

[Flash]

So apparently she is still stuck. They have at least four ships on scene as well as a salvage-rescue ship and a tug on the way with an admiral as the on scene commander.

In a 21st century twist Skynet may be to at least partially at blame for the grounding, "the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provided the Navy preliminary findings of a review on Digital Nautical Charts (DNC) that contain inaccurate navigation data and may have been a factor in the Guardian grounding".

There are some pics of the ship aground here, here and here (apparently she hit the reef head on but has since swung 90 degrees).

 

[scoober78]

So uh...what do you guys think about Ipad's on the bridge?!

 

[BigRed389]

So apparently she is still stuck. They have at least four ships on scene as well as a salvage-rescue ship and a tug on the way with an admiral as the on scene commander.

In a 21st century twist Skynet may be to at least partially at blame for the grounding, "the U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) provided the Navy preliminary findings of a review on Digital Nautical Charts (DNC) that contain inaccurate navigation data and may have been a factor in the Guardian grounding".

There are some pics of the ship aground here, here and here (apparently she hit the reef head on but has since swung 90 degrees).

That ship is probably finished.

And saying that being provided with an inaccurate chart "may have been a factor" is an early candidate for understatement of the year.

 

[Fog]

If the charts were fubared, then the CO just missed a .50 cal. an inch from his forehead. Just sayin' . . .

 

[helolumpy]

The San Francisco hit a sea mount that was not properly charted but the CO got relieved anyways.

 

[CAMike]

The San Francisco hit a sea mount that was not properly charted but the CO got relieved anyways.

Correct. A ship is "supposed" to utilize multiple forms of navigation at all times for just such an occurrence. Occurrences happen!

From what I've read, the QM was only using the digital chart...by itself. The paper charts onboard were accurate for this region. If the keel is damaged I think the ship and the CO are probably both finished.