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Re: USS Fitzgerald collision with container ship
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Jun 17, 19:32 -0700
From: Frank Reed
Date: 2017 Jun 17, 19:32 -0700
Reports are now coming in that some of the seven missing sailors have been found dead in the flooded spaces:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-navy-ship-collides-merchant-vessel-off-coast/story?id=48092522.
The point of impact below the waterline is apparently very close to one of the main berthing areas, a large compartment full of bunks. It's a terrible scenario: at the instant of that tremendous impact, deep in the night at 2:30 in the morning, when dozens and dozens of young men and women were asleep in their bunks, the steel hull would have opened like a cracked egg. The sea poured in, and some were trapped and drowned.
Frank Reed
