..>>The point of my inquiry, thusly, is how much responsibility a commander must assume for cataclysmic events. Or, even if world geography isn't the case, what a "long run" might do, if extension of such is a contributing factor. Since I know nearly nothing of Naval protocol, I'm just trying to understand from the POV of people who have actually been there.>>>
Am hoping the inquiry will be nothing resembling Rathergate. The Navy must find what actually went wrong and will be blunt with the questioning.
As with most accidents, I suspect a series of smaller or unexpected events led up to the grounding.
A new man on Sonar, a defective instrument, an error in the GPS system or reading, a trainee on a posting, an error in charts or depth lines, an overshoot in a dive.
Island shifting up to 100 feet ? Hard to conceive of that much power produced except by seeing what ruinous power was left in the waves as they traveled ashore a thousand miles away.
I think we hope for an "out" for the officers involved,so a new seamount would help provide that.
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Sig@hopeforthebest.com
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