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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-12-05 04:12 AM
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2. Given the massive damage and speed of the vessel
...it's really quite miraculous that more people didn't die. They had some serious forward flooding, ripped the damn dome off...that was some collision.

"Navy officials said the San Francisco was traveling at 30 knots when it careened off some part of the undersea mountain range. In one of the e-mail messages, Admiral Sullivan wrote that on impact, the vessel made a "nearly instantaneous deacceleration" to about 4 knots."

They were BOOKING, 30K is probably a low end estimate of the SOA....ugh, shudder to think about it.
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