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USS Guardian grounding report released
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2013 Jul 26, 13:37 -0700
From: Paul Hirose
Date: 2013 Jul 26, 13:37 -0700
The Navy has released its report on the January 17 grounding of USS Guardian in the Philippines. Although no one was seriously injured, the minesweeper suffered heavy damage and had to be stricken from the naval registry. The report says "watch teams failed to adhere to prudent, safe, and sound navigation principles," and relied on "inaccurate Digital Nautical Charts (DNC) during the planning and execution of the navigation plan." http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=74930 A PDF of the report may be accessed through a link on that page. --