If you hear an ominous sound coming from your railcar ’s engine , what would you do ? Most people believably would n’t remain to gun the locomotive engine , trying different gears until the problem run short by . But if you were the gang of the guided projectile - equipped USS Georgia and you heard some clunking coming from the submarine ’s engine , that ’s incisively what you would do . A newly uncoveredNavy report revealsthat when a undivided slack bolt roll out into the USS Georgia ’s actuation shaft , its crew kept the locomotive running for two days while trying to image out why it was n’t working . Of course , brass was n’t well-chosen :
“ This was an avoidable mishap , ” [ Vice Admiral ] Richardson wrote in his July 19 missive closing the investigating into the first live instance of main reduction gear damage on a submarine in three year . “ Had watch - stand principle of integrity , formality , adjective compliance , level of knowledge , questioning attitude and forceful backup been responsibly adhered to and executed , this incident would not have hap and the ship would have deployed on time . ”
The scathe to the nuclear hoagy from the bolt sidelined the vas for three month and the fixture be over $ 2.2 million . Not only did the misguided attempt to name the problem time lag repair effort , but it exacerbated the equipment casualty . Making matter worse , the repairs happened during a time when NATO demand the Italian sandwich to help out in Libya .
Of course , the Navy has detailed maintenance procedure to be certain things like loose hardware do n’t bust up havoc with expensive ship , like the use of a little - part catching collapsible shelter and regular periodical inspections . But elaborate procedures do n’t avail if they ’re not followed . After hangout , the USS Georgia is hunky-dory , and engineers are reviewing their lesson teach . But sweeping changes are n’t expected to result from this incident , because after all , $ 2 million is Arachis hypogaea to the Navy . [ Navy TimesviaBusiness Insider ]
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