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For those of you who have tolerated my diatribe on the collision of the USS Fitzgerald. This photos are displayed by the USNI blog and to be honest very shocked they have been published. They show a lot of the damage. One thing I find interesting though is that they patched her hull up before bringing her into dry dock… Why would you do this? She is in Japan at the naval yard she is stationed at which has the dry dock facility. Why would they patch her when flooding was controlled and she was buoyant? They could have easily towed her in by tug boat and got her secured in the repair dry dock and started repairs which would have been much easier and the USN has always down in prior collisions. If the ship is boyuant tow her to the dry dock and drain it and begin actual repairs instead of jury rigging a patch to the damage section. This makes NO sense what so ever. Is there damage the didn’t want to be seen? This is a strange tidbit of info!
https://news.usni.org/2017/07/12/new-dry-dock-photos-show-extent-hidden-uss-fitzgerald-damage