Researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography have revisited two industrial undersea dumpsites in the San Pedro Basin to identify objects discarded on the seafloor. The first time they looked at the area was in 2021, and now they’ve found multiple types of discarded military munitions and pyrotechnics across an area of 350 […]
Video has emerged of a horrific incident aboard the US Navy’s hospital ship USNS Comfort that led to 19 people being dropped from height into the water and injuries to two sailors. Incident in Haiti aboard the Navy’s hospital ship USNS Comfort that led to 19 people falling into the water and injuries to two […]
A webcam on the coast of California has captured two US warships appearing to play ‘chicken’ in San Diego Bay. Watch as the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Momsen heads directly towards USS Harpers Ferry on what looks to be a collision course, before a radio exchange confirms a change of course to port for both […]
A US Navy team has recovered a military jet that ‘blew off’ an aircraft carrier and sunk to approximately 9,500 feet. The F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft was blown off the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in July, after ‘unexpected heavy weather’ in the Mediterranean Sea. The carrier was conducting a replenishment-at-sea. The […]
An investigation is underway after an F/A-18 Super Hornet ‘blew overboard’ from USS Harry S. Truman. The ship was in the Mediterranean when the navy plane was blown off the flight deck and in a supremely brief statement, the US Navy blames ‘unexpected heavy weather’. The carrier was conducting a replenishment-at-sea. The weather was subsequently […]
The investor and private explorer Victor Vescovo and his crew have located the remains of the navy destroyer escort USS Samuel B Roberts, claimed to be the deepest shipwreck ever discovered. The US Navy confirmed the wreck site in a statement on Monday (25 June). With sonar specialist Jeremie Morizet, I piloted the submersible Limiting Factor to the […]
A scathing report by the US Navy into the fire that destroyed the USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020 has concluded that the loss of the ship was “completely preventable” and that there were major failures within the military chain of command that allowed the fire to destroy the warship. The blaze broke out on the […]
The US Navy conducted a sinking exercise off Hawaii on the decommissioned guided-missile frigate ex-USS Ingraham last weekend. The armed forced sank the warship as part of a large-scale military exercise, demonstrating how enemy ships could be targeted in a ‘maritime battlespace’. Former Navy vessels used in sinking exercises, referred to as hulks, are prepared […]