{"id":1959683,"date":"2023-06-28T18:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oceangate-was-far-from-the-first-submarine-tragedy\/"},"modified":"2023-06-28T18:10:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-28T22:10:42","slug":"oceangate-was-far-from-the-first-submarine-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oceangate-was-far-from-the-first-submarine-tragedy\/","title":{"rendered":"OceanGate&#8217;s tragedy was not the first submarine incident."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Foceangate-was-far-from-the-first-submarine-tragedy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1959683&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>OceanGate Was Far from the First Submarine Tragedy<\/h2>\n<p>On June 18, an OceanGate submersible imploded in the northern Atlantic Ocean, tragically taking the lives of all five passengers on board.<\/p>\n<p>The news of this ill-fated vessel, which was en route to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, captured the attention of the world for nearly a week.<\/p>\n<p>While accidents involving submarines and submersibles are rare in the twenty-first century, they have occurred, sometimes with devastating consequences.<\/p>\n<p>One such incident took place near Hawaii on Feb. 9, 2001, when the nuclear submarine USS Greeneville rapidly ascended from a depth of 400 feet.<\/p>\n<p>Upon reaching the surface, the submarine collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat carrying 35 unsuspecting passengers, resulting in the loss of nine lives, including four <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-reporter-resigns-amid-allegations-he-used-a-racial-slur-in-2019-ignore-context-and-intent\/\" title=\"New York Times Reporter Resigns Amid Allegations He Used A Racial Slur In 2019, Ignore Context And Intent\">high-school students<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the Ehime Maru disaster serves as a stark reminder that the effects of such tragedies can be felt for many years.<\/p>\n<p>As the 20-year anniversary of the disaster approached in 2021, the former commander of the USS Greeneville, Scott Waddle, penned an open letter of apology to the families of the nine victims.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser, Waddle took full responsibility for the accident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/starbucks-gets-bad-news-after-jury-finds-manager-was-fired-for-being-white\/\" title=\"Starbucks faces backlash as jury determines manager's dismissal based on race.\">expressing deep remorse<\/a> and acknowledging his failure to prevent the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The Ehime Maru incident stands as the only fatal accident involving a U.S. submarine in the twenty-first century, but other nations have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/oceangate-was-far-from-the-first-submarine-tragedy\/\" title=\"OceanGate's tragedy was not the first submarine incident.\">experienced similar maritime tragedies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 25, 2017, the Argentine submarine ARA San Juan disappeared after leaving its base at Mar del Plata, resulting in the loss of all 44 crew members. The wreckage was discovered a year later in the southern Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>An ongoing investigation by the Buenos Aires Times revealed that five Navy officers faced criminal charges in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The ARA San Juan disaster ranks as the second-costliest submarine tragedy of the twenty-first century, following the explosion of the Russian Oscar II class Kursk nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea on Aug. 12, 2000, which claimed the lives of all 118 crewmen on board.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout history, the Earth&#8217;s oceans and waterways have claimed countless lives, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rally-in-emerging-markets-already-in-danger-of-slowing\/\" title=\"Rally in Emerging Markets Already in Danger of Slowing\">recent events serve<\/a> as a stark reminder of this age-old danger.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/oceangate-far-first-submarine-tragedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 18, tragedy struck as an OceanGate submersible collapsed in the Atlantic Ocean, claiming the lives of all five passengers. The incident, which received extensive media coverage for almost a week, revolved around the ill-fated vessel&#8217;s mission to explore the Titanic wreckage. While rare, submarine and submersible accidents have unfortunately occurred in the 21st century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2056,"featured_media":1959684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1959683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1959684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1959683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1959683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1959683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}