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3月20日美國潛艇碰撞事故原因:艇員鬆懈
[據海軍時報網2009年10月28日報導] 海軍水下艦隊負責人稱,艇員的鬆懈和管理不善導致了3月20日“哈特福德”號攻擊潛艇和兩栖船塢運輸艦“新奧爾良”號在霍爾木茲海峽發生相撞事故。
10月28日在海軍年度潛艇聯盟會議上,潛艇部隊司令海軍上將唐納利稱,潛艇控制室“嚴重不規範”和“一系列人為失誤”,嚴厲批評潛艇指揮官員。
3月20日的潛艇碰撞事故發生在夜間,當時潛艇正在以潛航狀態駛入它返回母港前的最後一站傑伯拉裏港。他表示,艇員剛剛結束了緊張的部署階段,“每個人都放鬆了警惕“,但是以潛望鏡深度跨越海峽實際上是最具挑戰的時刻,因此發生了事故。艇員之間存在自滿情緒,他們已經在海上航行了63天進行高強度作業。事故發生後,“哈特福德”號少校指揮官及負責電子技術的首席執行官被開除。
唐納利還表示,潛艇已經知道“新奧爾良”號和其他艦船的位置,此次相撞與潛艇技術無關。潛艇人員沒有留意到感測器提供的資訊。(中國船舶資訊中心 何遠玲)
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/navy_hartford_lessons_102809w/
Admiral: Complacency caused sub collision
By Andrew Scutro - Staff writer
Posted : Wednesday Oct 28, 2009 16:37:46 EDT
MCLEAN, Va. — Complacency and poor management of surface contacts led to the March 20 collision between the attack submarine Hartford and the amphibious transport dock New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz, according to the Navy’s leader of the undersea fleet.
Speaking Wednesday at the annual Naval Submarine League meeting, Submarine Force commander Vice Adm. Jay Donnelly described a control room with “a lot of informality” and a “series of personnel failures” he blamed on the sub’s leadership.
The collision, which happened at night, came as the sub was making a submerged transit to Jebel Ali, its last port call before heading home to Groton, Conn.
The crew had just finished an intense operational phase of its deployment and “everybody let down their guard” for what was actually one of the most challenging phases, crossing the strait at periscope depth, he said.
“There was a great deal of complacency involved in the crew,” he said. “They had been at sea for 63 days operating in areas with high contact density.”
After the collision, both ships limped into Bahrain, New Orleans with a giant gash in the hull and Hartford with a sail partially torn from its hull, among other damage. No one was seriously injured in either crew.
Hartford’s damage was complicated and the ship is still in the yard. New Orleans rejoined the fleet from Bahrain.
The commanding officer of Hartford, Cmdr. Ryan Brookhart, and chief of the boat Master Chief Electronics Technician (SS) Stefan Prevot were both fired after the incident.
Speaking in response to a question after his prepared remarks, Donnelly said he had just spent a day on Capitol Hill last week explaining the incident to House and Senate armed services committees.
He also noted that more or better technology would not have helped the situation, as the sub knew the New Orleans and another ship were nearby.
“There were a whole host of watchstanders that failed to recognize the sensor data that was presented to them,” he said.
Lessons learned are already being integrated into submariner training, he added.