Reuters India gives a brief synopsis.
The ship, with a crew of 80, had just completed a port call at Subic Bay in the Philippines, when the grounding occurred.
No word on any correlation of the above with the grounding incident. “Oh man, I shouldn’ta had all them Red Horses at the Rum Jungle“…..
Nobody was hurt, and if it is a sand bar, let’s hope there is little to no damage. We are desperately short of MIW capability as it is.
An LCS wouldn’t have done that!
It mighta done it at 45 knots!
Reports I’ve seen have it as a coral reef, not a sandbar.
That’s not going to be pretty, with a fiberglass-coated wooden hull.
Another CAS badge with explosive bolts.
he news now is the charts issued to the ship were inaccurate and didn’t have the reef marked correctly.
‘Twould be lovely were that the case … somehow I don’t think it’ll keep the CAS pin attached.