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Were the collisions due to mapping error or human error? Afaik, the USN hasn't said.
by runeofdoom 3y ago
Were the collisions due to mapping error or human error? Afaik, the USN hasn't said.
- dragonwriter 3y agoHuman error in both cases, though both involved incomplete charts (the ridge the Connecticut hit was uncharted but there were all kinds of command/procedure errors that contributed to hitting it [and a number of significant command/procedure problems involving the ship in the months prior to the collision], the seamount the San Francisco hit in 2005 was marked as a possible hazard on charts the crew had but not the one used for navigation and the notation wasn't transferred to the charts used for navigation.)