USS Miami Fire: $700M Repair Estimate, Sub Scrapped

A Civilian Sandblaster Set Fire to a Bag of Rags Aboard the Nuclear Attack Submarine USS Miami on May 23, 2012 Because He Wanted to Leave Work Early. It Burned for 10 Hours. Repairs Came to $700,000,000, the US Navy Scrapped the Submarine, and He Got 17 Years.

Miami had arrived at Portsmouth on March 1, 2012 for a routine 20-month overhaul. The fire took the crew quarters, command and control, and the torpedo room. Around ten firefighters were hurt. The first repair estimate was $450 million and the Navy went to Congress for an additional $220 million; a fuller assessment put the real figure at $700 million, which would have meant cancelling work on other ships. She was decommissioned on March 27, 201…

USS Miami Fire: $700M Repair Estimate, Sub Scrapped

A civilian sandblaster at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard set fire to a bag of rags aboard the nuclear attack submarine USS Miami on May 23, 2012, because he wanted to leave work early — and the blaze he started burned for roughly 10 hours, according to details reported by 19FortyFive. What began as a small act of workplace avoidance ended up destroying crew living quarters, the command-and-control spaces, and the torpedo room, and set off a chain of …