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...courtroom was stunned. It was the 12th and final day of testimony in the inquiry into why the 6,300-ton nuclear sub shot to the surface in a procedure known as a ballast blow, slicing into the hull of the 58-m 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...
...posters are tacked up everywhere. Glass cases display footballs from championship games the school has won. In the crew's mess hangs a wooden sign with "Cornhusker Cafe" carved on it. When a young crewman earns his dolphins pin, which he gets after serving an apprenticeship on the sub, he must sing the University of Nebraska fight song...
...There are three things Nebraskans are proud of, the submariners told me: the University of Nebraska football team, the corn the state grows, and this Trident submarine. I believe it. The state has a Big Red Sub Club that routinely flies Nebraska crewmen back to the state for parades and football games. When I was in Nebraska this weekend, I was given an honorary commission in the Nebraska Admirals Association, signed by Nebraska governor Mike Johanns, for writing a book on "their" sub. I was also named an honorary "commander" in the Big Red Sub Club...
...Nebraskans are eager to continue civilian visits to their sub. On March 21, Johanns boarded the USS Nebraska at the Kings Bay, Ga., Naval Submarine Base, along with 10 other prominent Cornhuskers: the presidents of the Nebraska Cattlemen's Association and Omaha Chamber of Commerce, a radio personality, a handful of industry leaders, and the coach of the University of Nebraska women's volleyball team, who presented the crew with a volleyball signed by the players (who had just won the NCAA championship...
...They were the second group of civilians to take a one-day sub ride since the Greeneville collision. None were allowed to steer the 18,750-ton boat. That's been banned since the Greeneville incident, when a civilian had been sitting at the inboard helmsman's wheel. The prohibition is largely symbolic. The civilian steering the Greeneville had a sailor and diving officer behind him telling him every move to make on the wheel and had nothing to do with the accident; the mishap was already in the works by the time the civilian pulled the wheel back...