Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site eosp1.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ulysses!allegra!princeton!eosp1!lincoln From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: American Aircraft Carrier collides with USSR sub! Message-ID: <726@eosp1.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Mar-84 10:45:46 EST Article-I.D.: eosp1.726 Posted: Thu Mar 22 10:45:46 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 20:53:43 EST References: <2618@rabbit.UUCP> Organization: Exxon Office Systems, Princeton, NJ Lines: 17 >> 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.