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Posted: 5/12/2014 7:41:33 AM EDT

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USS Tautog sinks USS Darter(Mk 48). I served on the Darter at one time.

Posted: 5/12/2014 8:15:49 AM EDT

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Posted: 5/12/2014 10:16:34 AM EDT

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Not a sinking, but a train wreck of a vessel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRGFdmj2fOo

Posted: 5/12/2014 11:34:52 AM EDT

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What. You want the battle of the rubber duckies in the bath tub?

Nobody wants to see that.

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These are all personal videos and pics, right?

What. You want the battle of the rubber duckies in the bath tub?

Nobody wants to see that.

Uhm, no. I just know that ARFCOMMERs are notoriously bad a captaining a ship.

Here's a pic of when my boat went down. I was going to have so much fun at this spot on the river I found for shooting. I had targets set up all along the river side so I could shoot off of my new boat. Then I hit something and it started taking on water. With all of my guns still on board.

Then some JBT's came and took them all.

Posted: 5/12/2014 1:13:22 PM EDT

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Here is a video of the sinking of the first ship I was stationed on, the ex USS Samuel Gompers AD37.

http://youtu.be/NWUINayljrY

Posted: 5/12/2014 4:14:56 PM EDT

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That's not sinking. That's launching ships.

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How about a lot of ships

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/magurgle/Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg

That's not sinking. That's launching ships.

That's certainly the case for the USS Arkansas. That elongated dark blob on the right side of the blast stem is the old battleship blown vertical. When the water column fell the Arkansas was slammed into the lagoon then rammed into the bottom of the lagoon and crushed. Probably the worst damaged ship in that test and possibly during the entire series of tests.

Posted: 5/12/2014 4:37:44 PM EDT

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That's certainly the case for the USS Arkansas. That elongated dark blob on the right side of the blast stem is the old battleship blown vertical. When the water column fell the Arkansas was slammed into the lagoon then rammed into the bottom of the lagoon and crushed. Probably the worst damaged ship in that test and possibly during the entire series of tests.

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How about a lot of ships

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a32/magurgle/Operation_Crossroads_Baker_Edit.jpg

That's not sinking. That's launching ships.

That's certainly the case for the USS Arkansas. That elongated dark blob on the right side of the blast stem is the old battleship blown vertical. When the water column fell the Arkansas was slammed into the lagoon then rammed into the bottom of the lagoon and crushed. Probably the worst damaged ship in that test and possibly during the entire series of tests.

2nd worst.

They never found even a part of the LCM the bomb was suspended beneath.