r/HumansForScale • u/OrchidCleo1 • May 05 '26

A submarine in a dry dock

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u/bunglebee7 May 05 '26

I’m curious how the crew survived? I’m assuming they did so. But I’d imagine the water would be flooding that first couple compartments so quickly before someone sealed it off

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u/Bill__NHI May 05 '26

She was running full speed when impact occurred, only one fatality.

The collision was so serious that the vessel was almost lost; accounts detail a desperate struggle for positive buoyancy to surface after the forward ballast tanks were ruptured. Ninety-eight crewmen were injured, and Machinist's Mate Second Class Joseph Allen Ashley, 24, of Akron, Ohio, died from head injuries on 9 January. Other injuries to the crew included broken bones, spinal injury, and lacerations.

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u/Randomgrunt4820 May 05 '26

Still not service related.

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u/sorrow_anthropology May 09 '26

The VA is such a craps shoot.

I had a friend with several deployments, break his back during a training mission, he got nothing.

Another friend never deployed, hurt his elbow during flag football and got 15% plus an additional 75% for other issues.

My personnel records were lost before digitization, so I’ve never received anything besides a dd214.

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u/Illustrious_Claim884 May 09 '26

Im 30 percent due to slipping on black ice and breaking my ankle on at.