Japanese submarine collides with commercial ship while surfacing

You'd think someone would check before surfacing........nah, it's a big ocean, what's the chances?

https://www.foxnews.com/world/japan-...rfacing-report

Too much time passed between their baffle clearing and rise to periscope depth, or someone utterly failed at their job, or there was a thermocline above the sub that prevented them hearing the surface ship as they rose. Either way... oops?

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Originally Posted by ralexa6808

You'd think someone would check before surfacing........nah, it's a big ocean, what's the chances?

https://www.foxnews.com/world/japan-...rfacing-report

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Not the first time.....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_...ille_collision