The accident took place off the coast of Liaoning province in northeast China. In May 2003, China announced that the entire ship's crew (70 people) had been killed aboard the Ming-class submarine 361 due to a mechanical malfunction. The Navy recalled all of the Collins-class submarines to the submarine base HMAS Stirling after this potentially catastrophic event, and after naval engineers were unable to find any flaws in the pipes that could have caused the burst, they commanded that the maximum safe depth of these submarines be reduced. It was estimated that if the inflow had continued for another twenty seconds, the weight of the water would have prevented Dechaineux from returning to the surface.

The high-pressure seawater flooded the lower engine room before the hose was sealed off. On 12 February 2003, HMAS Dechaineux, a Collins-class submarine of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) was operating near her maximum safe diving depth off the coast of Western Australia when a seawater pipe burst. Commanders Robert Fancy and Ian McGhie were court martialled and reprimanded over the incident. Furthermore, the officer in charge of the training exercise had not been tracking the submarine's position using all the available equipment. It was travelling 50 metres (160 ft) below the surface at more than 14 knots (26 km/h) when Lieutenant-Commander Tim Green, a student in the Submarine Command Course, ordered a course change that took her onto the rocks at Fladda-chùain, a small but well-charted islet.Ī report issued in May 2008 stated that tracing paper (used to protect navigational charts) had obscured vital data during a training exercise. In November 2002, the Royal Navy's Trafalgar-class submarine, HMS Trafalgar, ran aground close to Skye, causing £5 million worth of damage to her hull and injuring three sailors. One other officer and two enlisted crew members were also disciplined for dereliction of duty. Her commanding officer, Commander Richard Voter, was relieved of his command on 30 November. No one on either vessel was hurt, and there were no leaks of oil from fuel tanks and no threat to the environment, but the submarine sustained damage to her periscope and sail area, and put into La Maddalena, Sardinia, for repairs. On 13 November 2002, USS Oklahoma City collided with the Leif Hoegh liquefied natural gas tanker Norman Lady, east of the Strait of Gibraltar.

Although severely damaged, the boat was towed back to San Diego for overhaul. The ship was abandoned by the crew and Navy civilian personnel, who were rescued by nearby naval vessels. Navy research submarine USS Dolphin experienced severe flooding and fires off the coast of San Diego, California. Coast Guard directly responded, survivors resorted to automatically deployed life rafts from Ehime Maru.Ģ002 USS Dolphin major flooding and fire These were cited as reasons for the submarine captain's choosing to stand off and remain close by. Weather conditions were producing 8-to-12-foot (2.4 to 3.7 m) waves and the submarine's partially surfaced condition prevented the opening of deck hatches. The Navy and the command of Greeneville have been criticized for making no immediate attempt to help the Japanese on Ehime Maru that survived the initial collision. The collision occurred while members of the public were on board the submarine observing an emergency surface drill.Ī naval inquiry found that the accident was the result of poorly executed sonar sweeps, an ineffective periscope search by the submarine's captain, Commander Scott Waddle, bad communication among the crew and distractions caused by the presence of the 16 civilian guests aboard the submarine. On 9 February 2001, the American submarine USS Greeneville 'accidentally' struck and sank a Japanese high-school fisheries training ship, Ehime-Maru, killing nine of the thirty-five Japanese aboard, including four students, 10 miles (16 km) off the coast of Oahu. Greeneville in drydock at Pearl Harbor on 21 February 2001 after hitting and sinking Ehime Maru.

3.2.2 USS Connecticut (SSN-22) collision with seamountĢ000s 2000 Kursk explosion.

3.1.1 Hoegh London collision with South Korean Navy submarine.

2.6.1 Sinking of unknown North Korean submarine.

2.4.1 INS Sindhurakshak explosion and sinking.

2.3.2 USS Montpelier collision with USS San Jacinto.

1.10.2 USS Hartford and USS New Orleans collision.

1.10.1 HMS Vanguard and Triomphant collision.

1.8.1 USS Newport News collision with Japanese tanker Mogamigawa.

1.7.2 USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul incident.

1.6.3 USS Philadelphia collision with MV Yasa Aysen.

1.6.1 USS San Francisco collision with undersea terrain.1.3.2 USS Oklahoma City collision with tanker.1.3.1 USS Dolphin major flooding and fire.1.2.1 Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision.

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