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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Royal Navy is condemned over crash of nuclear submarine

Use of tracing paper overlaid on charts is criticised by board

The Royal Navy was accused last night of using “Stone-Age technology” to navigate a nuclear submarine which crashed into the seabed off Skye six years ago.

The attack from Western Isles SNP MP Angus MacNeil followed publication of a report on the incident in which HMS Trafalgar hit the bottom at Fladda-chuain during a dive and suffered damage costing £5million to repair.

A Navy board criticised the use of tracing paper overlaid on charts, obscuring vital information about the seabed, substandard chart work, and lack of proper supervision of the three students involved.

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