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What You Need to Know: In 2005, the USS San Francisco, a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine, collided with an uncharted undersea mountain while traveling at maximum speed at a depth of 525 feet southeast of Guam. The impact caused significant damage, rupturing forward ballast tanks and severely damaging the sonar dome. -Tragically, one sailor […]
Summary and Key Points: In January 2005, the USS San Francisco (SSN-711), a nuclear-powered submarine, collided with an uncharted seamount at 30 miles per hour while submerged at 525 feet near Guam. -The impact caused significant damage, including ruptured forward ballast tanks and a severely damaged sonar dome, resulting in 98 injured sailors and the […]
Subsea cables are the backbone of the internet, carrying 99% of the world’s data traffic. Serg Myshkovsky | Photodisc | Getty Images U.S.-Chinese tensions surrounding technology have have sunk to sea lows. Subsea cables hit the headlines earlier this year after four out of 15 critical submarine cables in the Red Sea were cut amid […]
With tech tensions between the U.S. and China rising, vast networks of underwater cables are becoming a new source of strain in international relations. Subsea cables are the backbone of the global internet, carrying 99% of the world’s data traffic. The U.S. government reportedly warned tech firms including Google and Meta that undersea cables in […]
The United States struck five Houthi military targets, including an undersea drone, in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, the U.S. military announced on Sunday. The use of the underwater drone is believed to have been the first time that Iran-backed Houthis had employed such a weapon since they began their campaign against ships in […]
Princeville, North Carolina, is the oldest Black-chartered town in America, but its residents are reportedly concerned it could be underwater sometime in the future. The town, established at the end of the Civil War by freed slaves, sits close to the Tar River and is a little over 50 miles away from the Atlantic Ocean. […]
Pyongyang promises to deter ‘hostile military manoeuvres’ after naval exercises between US, South Korea and Japan. North Korea has tested a nuclear-capable underwater attack drone in response to joint naval exercises involving South Korea, the United States and Japan, state media has said. Pyongyang tested the “Haeil-5-23″ in waters off the east coast as the […]
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