[NRx]

My guess is that the ship is a constructive loss. Can't remember the last time the Navy actually lost a commissioned warship outside of war. As an ex-squid I feel for the crew. Sailors always whine and bitch about their ship. But it's also their home. Damn.

[LibWhacker]

I have my little fears about dying in certain various ways, such as in a fire, or in a fall from a great height, etc. But now I’ve just realized I have a new how-not-to-die phobia: underwater in a burning navy ship - the searing heat, claustrophobic confines, smoke and noxious fumes, then, just as you’re about to check out, you realize you’re drowning in scuzzy dock water and maybe about to get blown up by the best bomb maker in the world, if a wrong thing comes in contact with some other wrong thing. God help those guys get out of there in one piece!

By the way, how old is this ship? My wife’s father served on an earlier Bonhomme Richard.

[Tucker39]

All day long, I’ve had the recurring thought: “CO2 fire extingushers. If oil or liquid fuels are involved, water can often spread a fire. CO2 would starve the fire of oxygen and end it. Just spitballing.

[ops33]

Just out of curiosity, how do you scuttle a docked ship? Would it do any good, there can’t be that much water under the ship’s keel?