The day we broke the towed array

The day we broke the towed array

10 Dec 25
Posted by: Cdr Andrew Livsey RN
11 minutes, 27 seconds read
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The author’s self-examination of an equipment incident at sea, with important lessons for the present. A 10 minute read.

This is the story of the day we broke the towed array. I hope that by reading it you might learn from our mistakes and avoid something similar in the future. In this short piece I will run through some of the immediate, underlying and root causes before considering the implications. Immediate causes The most immediate reason we broke the towed array was that the Officer of the Watch commenced a turn which temporarily reduced the speed of the array through the water. We had one of the last 2031 arrays, which was just a long cable and bit of hose with acoustic modules, with no separate transmitt…

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