Crewman dies in accident aboard USS Nebraska

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No further details available at the time of this posting.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j7f1 ... QD93BHUO80

Navy: Submarine sailor dies in accident off Hawaii
17 hours ago

HONOLULU (AP) — The Navy says a sailor died in an apparent accident on board a ballistic missile submarine off Oahu over the weekend.

Spokesman Lt. Cmdr. David Benham says the accident on the Bangor, Wash.-based USS Nebraska didn't affect the ship and no one else was injured.

Lt. Kyle A. Raines says the crew member was mortally injured while the sub was beneath the ocean's surface. He was given emergency medical treatment and placed on a medical helicopter, but Raines says he died before reaching a hospital.

The sailor's name hasn't been released.

Benham says the submarine was conducting routine submerged operations at the time of accident Saturday.

The Nebraska is an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine. The ships are designed for stealth and the precision delivery of nuclear warheads.

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Below is the bubbleheads.blogspot.com take

Below is the bubbleheads.blogspot.com take on this whole thing.

Scuttlebutt by the sub professionals about this accident. A lotta comments.

http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2008/09 ... raska.html

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A few accident details. This

A few accident details. This info matches the scuttlebutt in the blog site above.



http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/642 ... death.html

Man who died on Navy sub was from Maine
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE -- A sailor who died in an apparent accident on the nuclear missile-carrying submarine USS Nebraska off Hawaii has been identified.

A Navy news release Tuesday identified the sailor as 21-year-old Machinist Mate 3rd Class Michael A. Gentile of Fairfield, Maine. He joined the Navy in 2005 and was previously assigned to the Alaska, another one of the Navy's 560-foot Trident nuclear-powered subs.

Few details have been released on what happened Saturday while the Bangor, Wash.-based sub was beneath the surface of the ocean.

The Navy Times quoted the Norfolk, Va.-based Naval Safety Center as saying Gentile became "entangled and pinned" in ship's rudder ram during a cleaning evolution.

Navy officers have said Gentile was given emergency medical treatment aboard the sub and was placed on a medical helicopter, but he died before reaching a hospital.

The Nebraska carriers ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads.

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For those of you who

For those of you who are interested in updates on this accident, every few days or week or so, go back to the submariner's blogsite for the most recent postings. Here and there, there are more details coming out. They give you some good Kentucky windage to what has happened and what will be happening. And apparently in a couple of or a few weeks the official report about the accident could be out.

http://bubbleheads.blogspot.com/2008/09 ... raska.html