i was reading one of my marine trade publications this morning. This article hasn't made it to the mass media yet. It seems the USS John S McCain (one of the USN ships involved in collisions this year) was loaded onto a semi submersible ship for its trip to a Japanese shipyard for repair but it is breaking up on the deck. It has developed a 4 inch (and increasing) crack (not unlike the Congressman) in the hull. The semisubmersible has been redirected to a closer port. It looks like we have sacrificed hull strength for lightweight (speed) in our equipment.