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From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln)
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Subject: Re: American Aircraft Carrier collides with USSR sub!
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Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 10:45:46 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 22 10:45:46 1984
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>> I can't believe that neither the sub nor the carrier knew nothing
>> of the other's presence.

Of course they knew about each other!  The sub was gathering
intelligence on the extensive joint naval maneuvers going on at the
time.  They do this all the time, and so do we.

By the international rules of navigation on the high seas, submarines
are always at fault when collisions like this happen because submarines
cannot conform to the rules: lights, signals and appropriate steaming
procedure when two vessels approach.  Of course, international
navigation rules won't decide confrontations between Soviet and
Americam warships.

Another Soviet submarine incident occured recently in the Carribean:
the sub became entangled with a US destroyer's sonar gear.  The Soviets
have recently sent a carrier flotilla into the area, a first.