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Related: About this forumUSS Guardian Aground: U.S. Navy To Dismantle Ship Stuck In Philippines
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/30/uss-guardian-aground_n_2580891.htmlThe USS Guardian sits aground on the Tubbataha Reef in the Philippines, Jan. 22, 2013. The Navy announced that the minesweeper will require sectional dismantling to remove it from the World Heritage Site.
USS Guardian Aground: U.S. Navy To Dismantle Ship Stuck In Philippines
01/30/13 10:04 AM ET EST AP
MANILA, Philippines The U.S. Navy said Wednesday that it would dismantle a minesweeper that ran aground on a coral reef in the Philippines after carefully studying all options on how to remove the damaged ship.
Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. James Stockman said dismantling the USS Guardian was determined to be the solution that would involve the least damage to the Tubbataha Reef, a protected marine sanctuary where the ship got stuck Jan. 17.
He said the Philippine coast guard was reviewing the plan, but gave no other details.
The Navy had said previously that the Guardian would be lifted by crane onto a barge and taken to a shipyard, but apparently the damage was too extensive and it will have to be cut up and removed in pieces. Stockman gave no time frame for the operation.
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USS Guardian Aground: U.S. Navy To Dismantle Ship Stuck In Philippines (Original Post)
unhappycamper
Jan 2013
OP
Better yet - Park rangers radioed the USS Guardian to advise it was nearing the Tubbataha Reef
unhappycamper
Jan 2013
#2
Well, there is one crew that is not going to be rewarded for this clusterFu@k.
R. Daneel Olivaw
Jan 2013
#3
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)1. Wouldn't this ship have had a sonar station warning of the reef?
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)2. Better yet - Park rangers radioed the USS Guardian to advise it was nearing the Tubbataha Reef
R. Daneel Olivaw
(12,606 posts)3. Well, there is one crew that is not going to be rewarded for this clusterFu@k.
Bye, bye Captain.
frylock
(34,825 posts)4. the idiot should be drummed out
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Rest assured, his career is ruined.