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Colliding in a Nuclear Way!
February 20, 2009
Bet this is an 'incident' few of us have heard of and what may be more troubling the low media exposure makes this writer wonder once more about the tactics of countries around the world to suppress such events from its general public.
Two nuclear submarines collide in the Atlantic Ocean
During the overnight hours of February 3rd and 4th two submarines collided in the Atlantic Ocean. Both were nuclear submarines with the latest in sounding equipment as well as the varying masking technology that hides a submarines acoustic signature. The submarines, one from the United Kingdom (Vanguard) and the other the French boat (Triomphant) reportedly collided at slow speed and that no injuries had been reported.
Collisions between ships have occurred before. Surface ships colliding due to wind, weather, fog, ice and other vesicles occasionally make our national and in some cases due to high or moderate loss of life or significance of the vesicles reap world-wide attention. Collisions between boats, a far less significant event due to numbers, there are just not as many. Warships colliding pose several problems in addition to loss of life as significant meaning can be attributed to the event becoming a possible "battle cry" from a nation's population to justify aggression or commencement of hostility's.
"I have not yet begun to fight." "Remember the Maine" "Remember the Alamo" and our last and most devastating to a nation, "September 11, 2001 or 9/11" among others, all cries for retribution upon the people of other countries. Some of these events have changed the face of the earth in land ownership others have almost destroyed other populations. This may be as it should be. Even the U.S.A. began as a single small colony among many nations of others who had lived here before yet this is just an implication of another thought.
Not much can be done by the general public when that public is deceived or in a more politically correct way, " . . . just not given all the information that they need." It's when the lack of information is of such significance that it belies burial either at sea or in the minds and hearts of its participants. Then someone, somewhere finds out. These embarrassing government or population blunders raise the ire of a world public. With the new dawn of homeland securities rising up throughout the world, the National Securities of a homeland, or the security of a governments abilities to lead a public this information becomes much more muddled. This event is exasborated by the government itself to become a possible "historical urban-legend."
This is a story about two modern, stealth able nuclear submarines. The very latest in boats for these nations and very exacting to boats of other nations as well capable of wiping out a substantial portion of the population, industry and technological abilities of a nation doing so under the cover of their own unique cameleon-like designs. Two such boats complete with nuclear weapons collided in the Atlantic waters off the coast of the U.K. on that night between February 3rd and 4th of 2009.
On February 6th two days later the French Ministry of Defense report that their boat, the "Triomphant" collided with an "immersed object" (possibly a container of some kind) while the Ministry of Defense of the U.K. did not acknowledge that any incident took place.
"First one nation denies knowledge of such an incident and another nation talks about an incident that is nothing more in a nation's eyes as at best insignificant."
On February 16 First Sea Lord of the U.K., Sir Jonathon Band states, "Recently, the two submarines came into contact at very low speed. Both submarines remained safe and no injuries occurred. We can confirm that the capability remained unaffected and there has been no compromise to nuclear safety."
"They briefly came into contact at a very low speed while submerged. There were no injuries. Neither their nuclear deterrence missions nor their safety were affected, France's defense ministry said Monday in a statement.
"I can understand the military thinking on keeping a boat's top speed under wraps to perceived threats as it could be that speed that makes one boat more threatening than another. But at a slow or low speed I mean what's to hide on the numbers? Every ship and boat, raft and inner tube that has ever been launched all have the same relative to their sizes, slow speeds! Was it four knots, three knots, two? Did the collision occur at a higher number? I get it . . . slow speed has just been determined to be any speed that would give that speed to other nations! So all slow speeds are now classified. Was the Le Triomphant traveling at 2 knots and the Vanguard traveling at 4 knots? Is low speed in the U.K. not low speed in France where it's called, "very low speed?"
There are no casualties which could be more credible thankfully as deceased or injured families could be notified, but in my way of thinking that brings up many new possibilities. It took 12 days for this information, not the true extent of the incident between these nuclear boats to come to public attention. I did not see so much attention in our local media, did you?
These are two boats patrolling in an ocean large enough to not have such an incident at all especially in peace-time. Yet the very stealth qualities that make them invisible to each other also blind them to themselves. I ask all manner of people to consider the possibilities of "the shouldas' and couldas' and wouldas'" that could have greater significance in other ways. Some incidents are meant to show humankind that they can grow beyond the problems we may face, other incidents are designed to show us grace."
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For too long I've messed with the wiring in my head. Now it shorts out more oft than not. But at my age I just sit and enjoy the sparks. RJM '07
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