As a former Navy firefighter. Most ships are lost due to fire, not loss of watertight integrity.
We can hope they removed the ammo.
“As a former Navy firefighter.”
When my career Navy father was stationed at Great Lakes, the early 1950s.
Occasionally he would take us to a graduation ceremony(?), where they had huge open-top tanks with fuel oil burning inside. They had bleachers set up at a safe distance.
A team would line up outside feeding hose to the front and others spraying water on the front of the team, and they would enter the tank and extinguish the flame!!!
Amazing.
Years later I learned from Navy friends that the EPA SHUT IT DOWN!
It was replaced with a smaller set up inside a containment with air scrubbers to clean the smoke.
They said they still do it.
Nothing I would want to be involved with, even when I was young and crazy.
*** “As a former Navy firefighter. Most ships are lost due to fire, not loss of watertight integrity” ***
I have been through a few fires... people think that steel doesn’t burn ... it doesn’t but everything on it and in it does.
We practiced Damage Control the most for Fire than Watertight Integrity also Cleaning any fluids as well as good ol needlegun to remove layers of paint.
My First Ship rescued and helped with The USS Forrestal and it was not lost on us.
(I came onboard after the Forrestal but it was drilled into us with Films and Lessons Learned) as well as Senior Petty Officers/Instructors who were there at the time)
I'm an old Army guy who knows nothing about the Navy...but are there sailors whose MOS (IIRC they're called "ratings" in the Navy) is "firefighter"?