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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

A six-hour blaze damaged a special-warfare minisub Sunday

The Navy will begin investigating today a battery fire that damaged the nation's only special-warfare minisub, a costly and problem-plagued stealth boat that was getting a recharge at Pearl Harbor's 22-acre SEAL facility on Waipio Peninsula.

The Navy has not yet determined the cause of the fire or the extent of damage.

The black, 65-foot Advanced SEAL Delivery System minisub was undergoing routine maintenance in its shore-based facility at 8:30 p.m. Sunday when Navy personnel monitoring the battery recharging process noticed sparks and flames coming from near some of the battery compartments, officials said.

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  1. Pete12/11/08 00:57

    Articles on submarines are of special interest, because Australia has begun the process of choosing/building a new submarine class for launch by 2025.

    The mini-sub fire sounds like a combination of:
    - high ambient heat in Hawaii's hot climate
    - possible release of flamable gases while recharging, and
    - an electical fault/connection (bared wire?) which ignited the gases.

    Pete

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