HMS ASTUTE grounded on rocks!!!
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Deleted User YDKXO
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Mmm. Stealth submarine. Stealth rocks it seems
Bilgediver
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maybe wrong offset in GPS
Not enough elevation in periscope to see the Skye bridge overhead.
rafiki_
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Not sure that Astute is the right name for this vessel!!
How about Asleep
How about Asleep
benjenbav
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Sheesh! Sometimes, y'know, people can be quite judgmental. I mean, what with cutbacks we're only buying Reeds every other year and the 2009 edition is fine for pretty much everything: the buoys are mostly the same and the tides, well - in a sub - they're not usually critic... well, sometimes they are. But, hey, one little mistake...
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Yeah you're right. I heard that the Navy had sold all their plotter cartridges on ebay to get a bit of cash to put fuel in the sub so you can't really blame them if they go around hitting rocks and stuff
paultallett
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You can just picture the scene on board as the bloke on the joystick steering it suddenly looks to his officer and says '****'!!!! 
capsco
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Will the Navy be saving even more money now, by sacking the skipper?
duncan
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paying him off.........
aquapower
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This is not yet in commision and was out on a sea trial, maybe just a bit more adjustment required to the nav aids required
Bilgediver
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Maybe they replaced the plotter cartridges with out of date charts from Ebay!
Wandering Star
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A submarines just a submersible mobo really - we all know what mobo drivers are like so why is anyone surprised?
Cheers, Brian.
Cheers, Brian.
BrendanS
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Raggies must have been racing dinghies and he tried to avoid them in a channel then?
raggy
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This is not yet in commision and was out on a sea trial, maybe just a bit more adjustment required to the nav aids required
Please get your facts right she was comissioned on the 27th aug.
Also there where no rocks involved it grounded at slow speed on a shingle bank. Some news reports are saying rocks because thats what the trafalgar hit in 2002.
elton
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You'd never catch Stingray or Thunderbird 4 stuck on a shingle bank. They should put Gerry Anderson in charge of the navy.
BrendanS
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Commissioned, but not in service yet, and ongoing trials
aquapower
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Sorry for getting it slightly wrong but was what was said on the bbc 6 oclock news
Major Catastrophe
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3571
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Are you sure?
Eye-witness Ross McKerlich said the submarine was about a mile from his home and appeared slightly tilted.
He said: "When I woke up this morning and looked out my bedroom window I could see the submarine.
"I am very surprised how far in it has come as there are good navigational buoys there."
Mr McKerlich added: "There was a helicopter hovering over the top - it's now gone back and there are two Naval vessels from the local base, Kyle of Lochalsh, standing off to the north of her.
Eye-witness Ross McKerlich describes the attempts to rescue the listing submarine
"Earlier in the day they did have ropes and they were trying to tow but now the tide has gone back and they're just standing off."
Mr McKerlich said HMS Astute was in an area of shallow water where he would not risk taking his yacht.
The submarine has run aground outwith the safe sea lane marked on Admiralty charts.
The channel that runs underneath the Skye Bridge has red and green buoys known as lateral markers to ensure vessels do not run aground.
HMS Astute appeared to be lying in shallow water several hundred metres beyond that safe route. The Admiralty charts show submerged rocks in the area where the submarine has got into difficulty.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-11605365
AndieMac
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Was that after the crew were seen sneaking out of the public bar of the Kings Arms (Kyleakin) earlier that evening