April 4, 2020
Nuclear-Aircraft Carrier Rams A Thirteen-Mile-Long Rock. Oh. No.
Catastrophe.
by Steve Weintz
Key point: The impact of a quarter-mile-long nuclear-powered object with a thirteen-mile-long solid rock is prodigious.
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.
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Somehow such mystery lingers, for once the world’s most powerful warship nearly wrecked herself upon a drowned island one hundred miles west of San Diego. Chris Dixon, who masterfully chronicled the origin of giant-wave surfing in his 2011 book Ghost Wave, surfaced this sea story of the USS Enterprise’s 1985 encounter with the Cortes Bank, where rock, water and wind collide to form sea monsters.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/nuclear-aircraft-carrier-rams-thirteen-mile-long-rock-oh-no-140957