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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Sunday, January 15, 2012

THE BREACHING SUBMARINE SYNDROME

I am republishing this from my original dissertation because of the terrible disaster off the Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy involving the Costa Concordia cruise ship.

THE

BREACHING SUBMARINE

SYNDROME

　
Aired February 9, 2001 - 10:02 p.m. ET
Breaking News from CNN
U.S. Navy Submarine Collides With Japanese Fishing Vessel; 10 Still MissingBILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR:

“We begin with breaking news from the coast of Hawaii tonight, where the U.S. Navy says a U.S. submarine has accidentally surfaced and sunk a Japanese fishing vessel. We are told life rafts are in the water and a rescue operation is now under way.”

That’s how we in Hawaii and the world began to hear about this unforgivable tragedy.

Over time the details began to emerge…

The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision was a ship collision between the United States Navy (USN) submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) and the Japanese fishing training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) on 9 February 2001, about 9 nautical miles (17 km) off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, USA. In a demonstration for some civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency surfacing maneuver. As the submarine surfaced, it struck Ehime Maru, a high school fishing training ship from Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Within minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of its crewmembers were killed, including four high school students.

(Refer to the *** at the end of this dissertation for the rest of the story of the USS Greeneville collision with the Ehime Maru.)

Ever since my wife and I have referred to any negative situation that coulda-shoulda been prevented as a…

BREACHING SUBMARINE

Everyday we all experience people who consciously or subconsciously perform in a hazardous manner. Individuals, companies, government, etc. execute their duties in poor, lazy, sloppy, reckless, heedless manners, as did the crew of the Greeneville. Most of the time everyone gets away with it. Sometimes they don’t!

The reason we use the word breaching is self evident if you have ever watched a “ballast blow” or “emergency surfacing maneuver” performed by a submarine. It has a striking resemblance to a Humpback whale as it breaches the oceans surface. We see this all the time during the winter here in Maui waters. Secondly, it’s the definition of breaching itself…

The Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of the word BREACH is…

- A breaking of a law, obligation, tie (as of friendship), or standard (as of conduct.)

- To leap out of water (whales breaching)

This tragedy, and what led to it, sounds a lot like everyday events that take place in all our lives.

　
Over the years we have all been witness to countless acts of neglect leading to tragic BREACHING of normalcy. From our personal lives, such a family, work and financial matters to organizations such a government, religion and military. If we’re lucky, they may only adversely effect themselves or just a few, but all to often they effects many. Think credit card abuse, Watergate, Catholic priests, Pearl Harbor, The Titanic, 9/11, Ponzie schemes, as just the tip of the iceberg!

Our current global financial crisis is what prompted me to publish the term BREACHING SUBMARINE now. In this case so many people are at fault that it’s hard to grasp the extent of what should have been obvious to all but ignored by most. Individuals taking on excessive credit card dept, institutions that designed and implemented deceitful financial practices. Mortgage brokers lured people in promising easy money allowing individuals and families to take on more dept than they should have. Everyone knew or should have sensed it was wrong but hoped to get away with it.

We stand in wonderment at what humans have accomplished technologically. How do buildings stand, planes fly, etc.? Conversely, things that depend on seemingly simpler human interaction, such as our home lives, finances, religion, work, government, etc., are laced with imperfections.

For thousands of years of human existence our ancestors have had to continually compose and impose rules, laws, regulations and religious doctrine to combat the constantly mutating urges of humans to lean to the bad.

Please, let’s at least begin to try and avoid what’s responsible for the BREACHING SUBMARINES in our own lives.

***Now, the rest of the story of the USS Greeneville and Ehime Maru from online encyclopedia Wikipedia…

The Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision was a ship collision between the United States Navy (USN) submarine USS Greeneville (SSN-772) and the Japanese fishing training ship Ehime Maru (えひめ丸) on 9 February 2001, about 9 nautical miles (17 km) off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, USA. In a demonstration for some civilian visitors, Greeneville performed an emergency surfacing maneuver. As the submarine surfaced, it struck Ehime Maru, a high school fishing training ship from Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Within minutes of the collision, Ehime Maru sank. Nine of its crewmembers were killed, including four high school students.

Many Japanese, including government officials, were concerned over news that civilians were present in Greeneville's control room at the time of the accident. Some expressed anger because of a perception that the submarine did not try to assist Ehime Maru's survivors and that the submarine's captain, Commander Scott Waddle, did not apologize immediately afterwards. The Navy conducted a public court of inquiry, placed blame on Waddle and other members of Greeneville's crew, and dealt nonjudicial punishment or administrative disciplinary action to the captain and some crew members.

Findings of the courtThe court made several findings, including that Waddle failed to take affirmative action in response to the non-availability of the AVSDU, nine of the 13 watch stations in and around the control room were manned by substitute personnel, and that one of the sonar operators was unqualified to stand watch.[44] The court also issued numerous opinions, including that the accident was caused by "a series and combination of individual negligence(s) onboard Greeneville," "artificial urgency" by Waddle to rush the submarine through its demonstration schedule as it began to run late, failure to follow standard procedures, the abbreviated periscope search, distractions and obstruction caused by the presence of the civilian guests, crew training deficiencies, overconfidence and complacency, and Waddle not paying enough attention to ship contact information. The court found that, although Brandhuber was the senior officer present on Greeneville, Waddle as captain was solely responsible for the safe navigation of the submarine. The inquiry report went into great detail on the purpose and rules surrounding the USN's DVE program.[45]

Full Wikipedia description may be found at…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision

Friday, January 13, 2012

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

WORLD DESTINATIONS PATRICK & MAUREEN HAVE EXPLORED

We have visited all seven continents; Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America.

We have explored in Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, China, Cook Islands, Columbia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Dominica, Egypt, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Liechtenstein, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Oman, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, South Georgia, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Trinidad & Tobago, Turkey, Virgin Islands, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela, Vietnam, Iceland, Greenland, Canada, USA, French Polynesia, South Africa, Namibia, Norway, Sweden, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Spain, Portugal, Cambodia, Oman and Vatican City.

We have cruised the Mississippi, USA, Yangtze and Lee Rivers in China, the Nile River in Egypt, the Mekong River through Vietnam and Cambodia, and the Amazon River in Brazil. We have navigated through the Suez and Panama Canals.

We have sailed the mighty seas. The North and South Pacific and Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea, Mediterranean, Tasman Sea, Sea of Japan, East China Sea, Yellow Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Bearing Sea, South China Sea, Bay of Bengal, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Weddell Sea, Drake Passage, Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Coral Sea.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Janesville, Wisconsin Roherty Family, Circa 1960

This is my Roherty families 1960 (aprox) reunion in Janesville, Wisconsin. I've circled the six of my family. You Janesville area Roherty's, can you find your family? I kind of remember a little of this.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

MEKONG RIVER CRUISE PHOTO'S

Thursday, January 19, 2012

PLRPHOTO VIDEO'S ON YOUTUBE