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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
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Subject: Re: U.S. sub w/two sinkings
Keywords: U.S.S. Houston
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Date: 12 Jul 89 01:24:31 GMT
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From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger)
In article <8132@cbnews.ATT.COM> alton@wpi.wpi.edu (Alton J Reich) writes:
:
:
:From: alton@wpi.wpi.edu (Alton J Reich)
:
:
:	I'm writing this from memory, so it may not be totally
:accurate.  I read this in the newspaper last Sunday (2 July), and I've
:been away.  Since nobody else posted about this, I'll do my best to
:remember the facts.
:
:	During the filming of the movie "The Hunt for Red October" the
:USS Houston (LA class) was submerging.  She snagged a line from a
:nearby tug and pulled it right under.  No one was injured on the sub,
:and the crew of the tug managed to get off safely (they were a bit
:surprised I'd imagine).  It took two days to repair Houston.  The
:damage amounted to some scratched paint.  
:	She was again submerging (three days after the first sinking I
:believe) when she caught a trawler and dragged it under.  The damage
:amounted to about the same as the first time.
:	A Navy spokesman who was quoted or something in the article
:made it sound like this sort of thing isn't so rare.  
:	
:
:
:		Alton

Not quite accurate, the sub was surfacing (when she is practically
blind) and snagged the tow line.  The line was spotted just before it
was snagged so she immediately dived to try to evade it. She was
unsuccessful and pulled to tug under.  Two of the three tug crew
escaped, one went down with the tug.  Several days later, she was
leaving the area, on the surface preparing to dive.  She ran into, and
destroyed a gill net that she claimed was in the normal shipping lane,
the Navy spokesman inferred that this was fairly common.

Lee

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