Yeah, I actually would find the hitting of other ships to be more forgiveable in that, based on talking to a few ex-sub skippers, they were probably playing a stupid game with those ships in the first place and either trying to get hull shots with the periscope as practice for doing it later or any number of other silly things the submarines do to one another while at sea.Captain Seafort wrote:The fact that we have so few boats is the reason he's going to be out on his ear. The US Navy can loose an aircraft carrier or two and not notice. We can loose a minesweeper without a noticeable chunk of the navy disappearing.Tyyr wrote:You got like what, six ships? Not a lot of skippers to pick from. Can you afford to start tossing them out?
What I'm most concerned about is how frequently this seems to be happening. Trenchant ran aground off Australia in '97, Trafalgar off Skye in 2002 and Superb in the Red Sea in 2008.
Hitting the ground should be a pretty rare event unless you are conducting inshore exercises or something. But in this instance on a freaking shakedown run I have no idea why you would even go close to a navigational hazard.