We did , we used what seems to become our standard negotiating tactic , ask for too much , offer to too little while insulting their mother's.
There is something to be said for an AOR that can maintain a 25 - 26 knot speeds.
And what would you do with them? Only sail them into harm's way......and risk having them damaged?
True, "expensive to operate" is what I and the USN would say...
Gotta pay to play! Fast costs…an AOR (well, AOE) that keeps up with a CVN/CSG ain’t gonna be cheap…
Well that and the ability to completely refuel and rearm a conventional Carrier Battle Group twice.Gotta pay to play! Fast costs…an AOR (well, AOE) that keeps up with a CVN/CSG ain’t gonna be cheap…
4 x LM2500s most sound nice though !
Would all be classified as overhead environment diving. Wreckage won’t look predictable either with the energy transfer involved with the ship and the structure. I suspect they ll paint a sonar map, string it with ROV’s- minimal time in the water. 50 feet is a nice depth though. I don’t know what the vis would be- my experience with ships and industry waterways it isn’t great lol
similar to the rivers you worked I imagine
Not sure what the bridge pylons were engineered to sustain, but my rough math of the energy of MV Dali was approx 1.7 Gigajoules of kinetic energy. That’s a frack load of energy dissipated into the bridges pylon…it would be the physical equivalent of the entire full output of the Pickering Nuclear Powerplant (which powers 1.5 million houses at any instant) for 1/2 a second.Would all be classified as overhead environment diving. Wreckage won’t look predictable either with the energy transfer involved with the ship and the structure. I suspect they ll paint a sonar map, string it with ROV’s- minimal time in the water. 50 feet is a nice depth though. I don’t know what the vis would be- my experience with ships and industry waterways it isn’t great lol
You’re smarter than me. I just go”energy bad. Make great heat. Twist metal. Make bad for swim”
…or another way of thinking of it is 1/2 ton of TNT
Gronk have good day? Big words!!!
I’m not a bridgeologist. But I think you’re right and that it was never intended to win a game of bumper cars with a ship larger than any that existed when it was built.
A bridgeologist would call that a grand slam.
I used to dive in the Fraser river for the CCG Hovercraft Unit. Diving in a river is no fun at all.....Would all be classified as overhead environment diving. Wreckage won’t look predictable either with the energy transfer involved with the ship and the structure. I suspect they ll paint a sonar map, string it with ROV’s- minimal time in the water. 50 feet is a nice depth though. I don’t know what the vis would be- my experience with ships and industry waterways it isn’t great lol
