New photos show the damage to a US Navy aircraft carrier sustained in a collision with a merchant ship last week. <\/p>\n
The warship USS Harry S. Truman docked at a US naval facility in Souda Bay, Greece, for repairs over the weekend following the incident near the entrance to the Suez Canal. <\/p>\n
Photos released by the Navy on Saturday show damage to the exterior starboard quarter of the 1,100-foot-long, nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. <\/p>\n
Damaged areas included \u201cthe exterior wall of two storage rooms and a maintenance space \u2026 a line handling space, the fantail, and the platform above one of the storage spaces,\u201d the Navy said in a statement. <\/p>\n
None of the damage affects the ship\u2019s combat capability, the statement said, adding that it has conducted flight operations since the accident last Wednesday night. <\/p>\n
A team including structural engineers and naval architects is conducting a detailed assessment of the damage and would implement a repair plan, the Navy said, without offering a timetable for the repairs. <\/p>\n
The Truman collied with the Besiktas-M, a Panamanian-flagged, 617-foot (188-meter) long bulk carrier, in the crowded waters near the Suez Canal off Egypt\u2019s Port Said in the Mediterranean Sea. <\/p>\n
The merchant ship was also damaged, but no injuries were reported on either vessel, the Navy said following the collision near a crowded anchorage for ships transiting the canal. <\/p>\n
Former US Navy captain Carl Schuster, an instructor at Hawaii Pacific University, said such conditions leave little room for error. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere is not a lot of room for maneuvering in a restricted seaway, and both ships require about one nautical mile to stop,\u201d Schuster said. <\/p>\n
Small navigation mistakes, misreading of the other ship\u2019s intentions or delayed decision-making from the crew of either ship could have put them in danger quickly \u201cwith very few viable options,\u201d Schuster said. <\/p>\n
Before the accident, the Truman was in Souda Bay for a \u201cworking port visit\u201d after two months of combat operations in the Central Command region, a Navy statement said. <\/p>\n
During that time, it conducted multiple strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen and launched airstrikes against ISIS in Somalia, the Navy said. <\/p>\n
Rear Adm. Sean Bailey, commander of the Truman\u2019s carrier strike group, which includes a guided-missile cruiser and three destroyers, said it remains operational across the region. <\/p>\n
\u201cOur mission has not changed and we remain committed to responding to any challenge in this dynamic and global security environment,\u201d Bailey said in a statement. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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