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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: American Aircraft Carrier collides with USSR sub!
Message-ID: <208@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Mar-84 11:09:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cepu.208
Posted: Mon Mar 26 11:09:39 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 28-Mar-84 01:25:24 EST
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Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center, LA CA
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  >By the international rules of navigation on the high seas, submarines
  >are always at fault when collisions like this happen because submarines
  >cannot conform to the rules: lights, signals and appropriate steaming
  >procedure when two vessels approach.  Of course, international
  >navigation rules won't decide confrontations between Soviet and
  >Americam warships.

Well yes and no, Subs in the process of surfacing *MUST* yeld right-of-way
to *ALL* other vessels (because most other vessels won't know that they
are there).  International navigation rules do decide many confrontations
between Soviet and Americian warships. During the 50's and 60's there were
several incidents of collissions and near misses between US ships and Soviet
ships (usually involving a Soviet Destroyer and an Americian Aircraft carrier).
What would happen is the Carrier would commence flight operations (which
involve steaming directly into the wind for extended periods of time) and
the Soviet Ship would place itself so that it would have the 'right-of-way'
over the Carrier (Now-a-days <since the USSR got its own carriers> they
don't do this, Hmmmm?).

  >Another Soviet submarine incident occured recently in the Carribean:
  >the sub became entangled with a US destroyer's sonar gear.  The Soviets
  >have recently sent a carrier flotilla into the area, a first.

-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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