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Lu Abel wrote:
> Scott:
>
> The Wikipedia article Frank points to gives a good summary.  The USS San
> Francisco ran into the seamount not because of navigational instrument
> failure, but because the thing was only vaguely charted.   The San

That's what I get for not reading the entire article and checking out
the damage pictures.

> Francisco probably knew precisely where it itself was, it just didn't
> know it was competing with a chunk of rock.
>
> The San Francisco's captain received a career-ending reprimand because
> another chart (not the one he was using) referred to the possibility of
> seamounts in the region in which he was operating and the court of
> inquiry found he was negligent for not using "all available navigational
> information."

I wonder if he even had the chart aboard the submarine at the time of
the mishap.

-Scott

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