Word: vessels
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...women aboard the U.S.S. Cole had been at sea for two uneventful months when their vessel arrived in the Yemen harbor of Aden last Thursday. Unrest in the region and the Cole's upcoming six-month mission with the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, where it would enforce the international oil embargo against Iraq, had upgraded the ship's Threatcon to "bravo," the Navy's second-highest state of alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck...
...forget. The Kursk was no research vessel. It was a warship whose missiles at one time or another probably targeted many TIME readers. Although the loss of life is tragic, the world is a safer place without the Kursk. LARRY ROBERTS Winnipeg, Alta...
...announcement for two days, then issued a bland statement that there had been a "technical fault" and the boat was on the sea bottom. After the seriousness of the accident became clearer, Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev declared that there was "incontrovertible evidence" that the sub had collided with another vessel. In past years Soviet and U.S. vessels have had near collisions while spying on each other, but the Pentagon firmly rejected any suggestion that U.S. submarines were involved. Later, Russian officials dropped the collision claim and blamed an explosion in the weapons area, a theory supported by Western experts...
...submariners say they drill more often and more realistically than their Russian counterparts. While Russian submariners have rushed to automate much of their onboard machinery, the U.S. Navy still relies heavily on men in the loop standing watch to keep their vessel humming and safe...
...perpetually on alert in San Diego. Built in the wake of the Thresher's loss, it is designed to reach trapped submariners anywhere in the world within three days. It could have come--had the Russians asked--to the Kursk's aid last week. Should American submariners find their vessel sinking, they have been trained to pull emergency stores of food and oxygen into whatever living space remains. They know that the rescue sub's goal is to hook up with a downed submarine within 72 hours of an accident. So on any stricken U.S. submarine, the survivors' goal...