Answers to Last Week's Submarine Q.O.T.W.

Background information and photo (s) presented when the Questions of the Week (Q.O.T.W.) answered below were originally posted may be found here: MARCH 22, 2014.

ANSWERS

1. During which ICEX  (give year) was the above photo taken?  ANS: Ice Exercise 2007 (ICEX 2007.

2. Salutes in the frigid arctic are fairly rare occasions; who was the individual (name and rank) receiving the above salute? ANS: Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV), the Honorable Dr. Donald C. Winter.  

3. Identify the name, and hull number of the sub whose unmarked sail is shown?  ANS: USS Alexandria (SSN-757).

4. Identify a second submarine that had participated (name and hull number) in the same ICEX as the sub shown above.  ANS: HMS Tireless (S88). 

5. Some video for a feature length Sci-Fi production was produced during the same ICEX.
As a result of a tragedy claiming lives from the second sub, the film, released the next year, was dedicated to the memory of those submariners. Who were they (names and rates).  ANS: Leading Operator Mechanic Paul McCann and Operator Maintainer (Weapons Submariner) 2 Anthony Huntrod, of the HMS Tireless crew.

6. Which lead actor shared something in common with sailors who died, and identify their commanality?   ANS: Samantha Tapping (below) was born in the U.K. as were the two members of HMS Tireless's crew who lost their lives.


Submarines are always silent and strange.

Russia's Discipline Problem: "Crazy Ivan" is now "Sloppy Ivan"

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Russia embarrassed...
The  nuclear-powered missile submarine (Delta-IV-class).  The fire broke out on Thursday at an Arctic shipyard where the submarine Ykaterinburg (K-84) was in dry dock. Seven members of the submarine crew were taken to hospital after inhaling carbon monoxide fumes.  30 December 2011


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US  embarrassed ...
The fire broke out 23 May 2012 on submarine USS Miami -How long before truthful answers are exposed to sunshine and fresh air? The only answer that we could hardly expect to be revealed during our lifetimes is the one involving a foreign agent.

"The fire, the Navy said, started when hot welding slag in a vacuum cleaner [NOT] caught fire when the implement was placed among some cleaning supplies and left unattended." - NavyTimes

RUSSIAN EMBARRASSED AGAIN

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(Reuters) 16 SEP 2013 - A  fire burned for five hours on an atomic-powered submarine undergoing repairs, but naval and shipyard officials said there was no risk of a radiation leak and nobody was hurt [NOT]. The submarine Tomsk,  powered by two nuclear reactors, caught fire at the Zvezda shipyard. It had been undergoing repairs since 2010. The fire was the second on board a Russian nuclear-powered submarine in less than two years.

(Bellona) 16 SEP 2013 - The Unified Shipbuilding Corporation website said in a statement (in Russian) that the fire broke out in a ballast area of the submarine after a gas-powered saw was used to cut through a grate, setting an old rubber covering, cables and paint on fire.

 (RFE)  17 SEP 2013 - Russian investigators now say 15 sailors were hospitalized after a fire on a nuclear submarine in the Far East and that the submarine suffered damage as well.   

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Accidental events or espionage, you decide.

Submarines are always silent and strange.