Navy loses four unmanned mini-subs during exercise

[Blue_Tires]

UPDATE: The Navy says that as of 2:45 p.m. Tuesday, a search is still under way for the missing mini-subs.

NORFOLK

Four underwater unmanned vehicles went missing Sunday during training to conduct search, classify and map missions.

The Navy, Coast Guard and local authorities were searching for the missing vehicles in the Thimble Shoals Channel between the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, a Navy news release said.

Communication was lost with four of the 13 unmanned vehicles Sunday about 1 p.m. while the vehicles were using bottom-mapping sonar to look for mine-like contacts in the water as part of the training. Search and recovery operations began immediately.

Efforts continued Monday using small-craft, shore-based teams, air assets and marine mammal systems, which could include sea lions and dolphins trained to hunt mines.

The cause of the vehicles’ disappearance is under investigation. The missing vehicles do not pose a danger to civilians or the environment, the Navy release said, but if an unmanned vehicle is discovered floating in the water, boaters should avoid it as they would any other navigation hazard.

The unmanned vehicles were being used as part of a larger training exercise with about 2,500 personnel from Canadian and U.S. military forces and government civilian agencies. The annual training exercise will continue through Friday.

http://hamptonroads.com/2010/06/navy-loses-four-underwater-unmanned-vehicles-norfolk

[SidDithers]

1. Oops!...nt

Sid

[Chulanowa]

2. You say unmanned mini-subs, I say Cthulhu Snacks

[Codeine]

4. OOOH!

That's a fantastic Cthulhu image! :applause:

[petronius]

10. Pretty close to the Bermuda Triangle, isn't it?

Poor little subs... :scared:

[proteus_lives]

15. Maybe they're playthings for the Deep Ones now.....

[Chulanowa]

17. Makes me want to break into song...

It's beginning to look a lot like fish-men
Everywhere I go;
From the minute I got to town
And started to look around
I thought these ill-bred people's gillslits showed.
I'm beginning to hear a lot of fish-men
Right outside my door,
As I try to escape in fright
To the moonlit Innsmouth night
I can hear some more.

They speak with guttural croaks and to hear them provokes
A profound desire to flee
Their eyes never blink and quite frankly they stink
Like a carcass washed up from the sea.

I wish I'd paid attention to that crazy drunken man.
He tried to warn me all about old Marsh's Deep One clan.

It's beginning to look a lot like Fish-men
Everywhere I go;
They can dynamite Devil Reef,
but that'll bring no relief,
Y'ha N'thlei is deeper than they know.
I'll continue to see a lot of fish-men
That I guarantee.
For the fish-man I really fear
is the one who's in the mirror
And he looks like me.
He looks just like me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFo4jbqe_2Y

[proteus_lives]

20. That's pretty awesome.

You need to see this one if you haven't already.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcLm_7Yip_E

[Dappleganger]

23. Gotta love this comment:

"The HP Lovecraft Historical Society Singers are the best things to happen to me since Rhan-Tegoth climbed out of my fridge and offered to tidy up around the house."


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Codeine]

3. They have achieved sentience and gone rogue.

I for one welcome our new aquatic underlords.

[Blue_Tires]

22. bound to happen sooner or later with an AI army...

[Macoy]

5. Sharks with Lazers

It was the sharks with lazer beams that got the subs. Soon, the sharks will move on to larger ships. :P


Macoy

[Lasher]

6. I think they got Steve Irwined.

YEEEEAAAAAHHHHH!!!

[Chulanowa]

18. Sharks are already attacking 747's!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBizgLZX7W0

[sinkingfeeling]

7. So, we should have the federal gov't. and the military stop the oil spill?

[MineralMan]

8. Psst...psst...BP Stole 'em! Look over in the Gulf.

[Statistical]

9. BP doesn't know anything about undersea repairs get the Navy in there quick.

Er wait ...

[galileoreloaded]

24. HAHAHAHA ! Good post! n/t

[me b zola]

11. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8E8trKZGbE

[Captain Hilts]

12. They're probably in the MISSOURI trench! Wow! nt

[Captain Hilts]

13. Some of the comments with the article are pretty funny. nt

[DURHAM D]

14. Look in BP's garage. nt

[FarCenter]

16. So how much did each of these cost the US taxpayer?

[hayu_lol]

19. Take the money out of the controlling Admiral's pay...

enlisted pay for anything they lose...why not the brass?

[damntexdem]

21. Some kid probably playing with his radio-controlled motorboat.

Now he has five wet toys to take home.

;-)

[edbermac]

25. He just ate a mini-sub!

Give it back!!

[BeFree]

26. Okay

Anything they can do to make BP look good, eh?
Why would the navy even advertise this? Even if true? The navy loses stuff we never read about. So why now?

[bobthedrummer]

27. Another "coincidence" (?) on June 11, 2006 Philip Merrill went "missing" off his sailboat there

Philip Merrill Right Web page
http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Merrill_Philip_1934-2006/

[bobthedrummer]

28. Former CIA Director William Colby (who helped manage the Phoenix assassination program) also was

"lost" in that region. Any more news about the missing "mini-subs"???

[bobthedrummer]

29. Kick