August 12, 2020
This U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Slammed into a 13 Mile Long Rock (And Survived)
Did we mention the ship was nuclear powered?
by Steve Weintz
Here's What You Need To Remember: The impact of a quarter-mile-long nuclear-powered object with a thirteen-mile-long solid rock is prodigious. The drowned island tore a sixty-foot-long gash in the side of the Enterprise’s torpedo-resistant hull. Three of the four giant propellers were totaled and the port keel gone.
Spend some time with Google Earth, an atlas or a globe and you will see that California, for peoples used to the Atlantic, was indeed the far side of the world well into the nineteenth century. What is now one of the most populated, navalized coastlines on Earth remained poorly known even to mariners.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-navy-aircraft-carrier-slammed-13-mile-long-rock-and-survived-166665
