Word: sonar
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Intermission provided an interesting exercise for those of us who wished to experiment with techniques of sonar navigation. Unstymied by repeated requests for audience members to take their seats so that Act II could commence, many of my more adventurous compatriots chose to wait for the houselights to dim and the curtain to rise before groping their way through the darkness to their places. Later, in case the interruptive energy contained within the house was not enough, various public vehicles, anything with a siren really, decided to lead an impromptu combination of drag race and parade outside of the theater...
...Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little bit" lazy in not telling Waddle that a ship appeared to be just 3,700 m away. Questions had been raised about the extent to which 16 civilians onboard may have interfered with safety procedures...
...Ehime Maru and causing it to sink within minutes. The court, which is to decide what action, if any, is to be taken against Waddle, 41, and two other officers, had heard conflicting accounts of how well Waddle ran his ship. A petty officer in charge of analyzing sonar data had conceded he had been "a little bit" lazy in not telling Waddle that a ship appeared to be just 4,000 yds. away. Questions had been raised about the extent to which 16 civilians onboard may have interfered with safety procedures...
...Waller: Well, for example, the digital display indicator was broken. That's a digital screen that shows the sub's executive officer and captain the same sonar picture that the guys in the sonar shack are looking at. Having that screen broken was obviously not helpful. Then, down in the sonar shack, there should have been three or four sonar technicians as well as a supervisor keeping an eye on things. But that day on the Greeneville, there were only two technicians...
...There were so many things, like the sonar malfunction, the emphasis on rushing through the procedures - individual things that were fixable when they happened. If a certain sonar display wasn't working, for example, maybe the trip should have been canceled. If the morning was drawn out, and there wasn't enough time to go through the afternoon's activities, maybe someone should have said something to that effect...