Keeping the blogosphere posted on the goings on of the world of submarines since late 2004... and mocking and belittling general foolishness wherever it may be found. Idaho's first and foremost submarine blog. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me; don't call me at home.)
I was gonna do a post about USS Dolphin (AGSS 555), the U.S.'s only commissioned diesel submarine, getting ready to return to sea after her flooding casualty in 2002, but MT1(SS) beat me to it.
posted by Bubblehead at 12:10 AM
I'm Joel Kennedy -- a married, 50-something year old retired submarine officer and esophageal cancer survivor with three kids who has finally made the transition to civilian life. Politically, I'm a Radical Moderate. (If you don't like something on this blog, please E-mail me. Don't call me at home.)
3 Comments:
I have heard that the corpprate Navy is complaining about the cost of having the Swedish submarine Gotland doing training for the US forces. This is at the same time the "operators" are raving about the quality of the training they are getting against a realistic diesel target. Any truth to that? Have heard that one solution is to make Dolphin work harder, but that there may be problems with that......
11/30/2005 9:36 AM
Well bubblehead, you beat me to my posting as well.
My husband and I both predicted that they were going to be "delayed" in their launch.
I recall that fateful night and morning....I was in the hospital when the corpsman said.. " all hands abandoned ship.. diesel sub...43 men..don't know how many casualties.."
What goes through a wife's mind when she hears her husband's sub is
in trouble? Panic, fear and lots of praying that they're all safe.
long live the "triple nickle" :-)
12/02/2005 11:44 AM
Had a really great supply officer on Dolphin during the May 21, 2002 accident. Remember the years when ship yards had large staffs and repairs could be pounded out? Before the cut backs of the 1990's, projects could be speeded up with expensive spearhitting round the clock shifts.Not much of that going on today, but I am sure they did that on special projects, like "the USS Cole" and other high profile projects. Dolphins supply officer, apparently thinking he was in a 1980's ship yard environment seriously thought his galley would be up and running as early as May 5, 2003. The laughs he got ( all behind his back). Dolphin needed a real make over and several of us wondered why the supply officer thought she would be going to sea so soon without the needed upgrades. Then again, I did two tours on Dolphin and experienced the flaws that had to be addressed. I believe she is ready to go to sea now, and I wish I could serve on board "Dolphin" one more time.
12/04/2005 9:45 AM
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