Re: [OT] Navy releases photos of U.S.S. San Francisco

From: OM (om_at_our_blessed_lady_mary_of_the_holy_NASA_research_facility.org)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 06:27:56 -0600

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 04:41:40 -0600, Pat Flannery <flanner@daktel.com>
wrote:

>I'm still trying to figure out how you cave in the side of the sub's bow
>when hitting a submerged mountain; the thing must have been shaped like
>Devil's Tower with near vertical sides.

...I suspect it wasn't exactly dead-on, but just to the port side. On
the other hand we a) haven't seen the bow before they removed what was
left of the outer hull that was hanging there, and b) we haven't been
shown the starboard side yet, only the port side.

                                OM 

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