Search continues for the missing off the coast of California US Marines

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Search continues for the missing off the coast of California US Marines

The search continues for the US Marines, whose landing craft sank the day before off the coast of California during a training operation. 8 American servicemen are reported missing.

According to the latest information, the body of one of the Marines was found. Previously, the bodies of two injured and hypothermic were delivered to one of the ships.



The command of the United States Marine Corps reports that there were 16 people on board the landing craft (according to some reports, we are talking about a landing craft). Five were able to return to the warship from which the landing was carried out. According to the commander of the ILC, General David Berger, an investigation into the tragic incident is already underway.

In the US press, meanwhile, they say that the cause of the accident could be the excess of the permissible load on the boat, as well as its technical condition. Now the ILC has begun a large-scale test of the means of landing marines from landing ships into the coastal zone.

Meanwhile, the search team reports that to date, more than 200 square nautical miles of the water area in the area of ​​the incident have been surveyed. Searches have not yet yielded results, they are complicated by difficult weather conditions - high waves. The search operation involved funds aviation, a US Coast Guard and US Navy ship.
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  1. +9
    1 August 2020 09: 42
    Razdolbaevs are everywhere, and they are frequent visitors to the Navy.
    1. +6
      1 August 2020 09: 58
      Apparently they are already looking for bodies.
      1. +3
        1 August 2020 11: 11
        Long stay in water even 27 ° causes fatal hypothermia of the body. Do not forget about sharks, as I understand they are off the coast of California, there may not be all bodies
        1. +6
          1 August 2020 15: 03
          Quote: Mitroha
          Long stay in water even 27 ° causes fatal hypothermia

          He was engaged in spearfishing in Cuba. at a water temperature of 27-28 ° they were in the water for 4-5 hours. From "protective equipment" a simple cotton T-shirt and swimming trunks. I have never overcooled. request
        2. 0
          3 August 2020 08: 51
          There is a Californian current, it is quite cold, the average water temperature is about 12-14 °, locals rarely enter the water without wetsuits, and then only on shallows and in lagoons where the water has time to warm up ...
    2. -3
      2 August 2020 05: 47
      - Mr. Putin, what happened to the American landing craft? - He drowned.
  2. +3
    1 August 2020 09: 43
    The California coast is not the North Seas ... there is a chance to be found alive! Kateru, there is a road negative
    1. -19
      1 August 2020 09: 46
      "The corpse of the enemy always smells good" is an old, but always relevant expression.
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        1. -10
          1 August 2020 09: 51
          Rather, a "pragmatist". Yes
      2. -2
        2 August 2020 02: 16
        Quote: Snail N9
        "The corpse of the enemy always smells good" is an old, but always relevant expression.

        And we are not at war with the United States, this time. The fact that people suffered, let the military, in peacetime, and others blah-la-la, are bad. These are two.
        1. +7
          2 August 2020 05: 50
          We have been at war with the United States since 1946. Oh yeah, do you need a formal declaration of war? So now no one declares war. They simply conduct counter-terrorist operations with the destruction of entire states.
          1. -7
            2 August 2020 06: 58
            Quote: Omskgazmyas
            We have been at war with the United States since 1946. Oh yeah, do you need a formal declaration of war? So now no one declares war. They simply conduct counter-terrorist operations with the destruction of entire states.

            You who were not meat, not gas, the USSR had in your defective brain?
          2. -4
            2 August 2020 09: 29
            Quote: Omskgazmyas
            We have been at war with the USA since 1946

            You tough guys - oak brothers Pinocchio ..
        2. +3
          2 August 2020 14: 53
          Quote: Fitter65
          we are not at war with the USA

          You explain this to their politicians and the military. They can listen to you.
    2. +8
      1 August 2020 10: 11
      Quote: Hunter 2
      The California coast is not the North Seas ... there is a chance to be found alive

      There is a cold current. Not the Red Sea, it's easy to overcool.
      1. +8
        1 August 2020 10: 45
        Quote: Mountain Shooter
        There is a cold current. Not the Red Sea, it's easy to overcool.

        Whatever the temperature of the water, hypothermia will come anyway. Of all the cases known to me, there was one when a boatswain in the Western Sahara region fell overboard and stayed on the water for about 10 hours.
        1. +1
          1 August 2020 11: 08
          And with “Salvador Allende”, in my opinion, they held out longer.
          1. +3
            1 August 2020 11: 32
            Quote: Nikolaev
            And with “Salvador Allende”, in my opinion, they held out longer.
            Only two of the crew were rescued:
            Skiba I.I. at 23 hours on 30 December, it was lifted from a rubber raft dropped by Canadian aircraft by the TORUNGEN tanker approximately 9 miles from the site where the ship sank.
            Taranov A.Yu. at 13:30 on December 10 was raised from the water by a helicopter with the code name "Jolly-14" of the New York Aviation National Guard at a distance of about 60 miles from the place where the ship sank.
        2. +2
          1 August 2020 11: 37
          Googling laziness. In the 60s Norga outboard washed away 2 hours in winter in Barentsukh. In Canada in winter, a Soviet container ship sank, like some kind of Tarasov. Survived those who doused themselves with engine oil from head to toe before jumping into the sea. White sharks graze there in California without malice. If they didn’t rescue them right away, they are already looking for bodies, unless of course they were wearing life jackets.
          1. +4
            1 August 2020 12: 32
            Mechanic Tarasov 12.02 82 g area of ​​Canada. Out of 33 crew members, 10 were rescued, subsequently 5 died from hypothermia.
        3. +2
          1 August 2020 12: 34
          At 30 degrees water, you can stay for several days.
          There was a case in the 70s, when from a Soviet ship near Thailand
          the tourist escaped by jumping into the water. Due to the currents, he dangled in the water about
          three days (he was a trained swimmer and diver). Survived
          reached the shore.
          1. +8
            1 August 2020 14: 19
            Even sharks disdain traitors! negative
            1. -1
              2 August 2020 14: 30
              Quote: tralflot1832
              Even sharks disdain traitors! negative

              And whom did he betray?
              Obviously, he was not on duty and not under oath, since he was released on a tour.
              And "flight abroad" as a form of treason to the Motherland prescribed in the Criminal Code is, excuse me, absurd.
              1. +2
                2 August 2020 14: 39
                He was engaged in oceanology. Relatives also suffered after his escape. Under the USSR, the state itself exported me abroad. But never the desire to flee arose, probably upbringing and birches are not in Russia, these are not birches. Khrushchev's son was also found with a hole in his head, but He did it himself for a long time. For me, the runners in the USSR are traitors, they betrayed once, they will betray again.
                1. 0
                  2 August 2020 14: 46
                  I, too, never had a desire to leave, although many "well-wishers", including parents, have composted their brains on this topic. But, damn it, the installation that you were born here, which means you have to live here, otherwise you have no right to live at all (as a traitor) - this is wild. And it would be fine if this only concerned the capitalist countries, of course, the Cold War and all that. But even within the socialist camp, where, as it were, peace, friendship and internationalism, you could not move to another country.
          2. +2
            2 August 2020 04: 25
            He died not so long ago in Israel. During diving work. And he was already over 60 ...
    3. +2
      1 August 2020 10: 35
      Quote: Hunter 2
      this is not the North Seas ... there is a chance to be found alive!

      Yes, these are not northern seas ...
      California

      Shark hazard... None of the beaches in California can be considered calm. California has a large population of seals located close to the rocky shores of the Farallon Islands. We remind you that seals are the main food of great white sharks. California's Great White Shark Diaspora is one of the largest in the world. Attacks are not so frequent in Florida, where small individuals attack, but they are much more "effective", because adults "work" here.

      The bottom line: swimming, diving is not only dangerous, but also life threatening. To be in the water only near the shore on fenced and prepared beaches. Do not swim in the open sea. Observe all safety measures as much as possible and do not ignore the warning signs on the beaches.
      1. +5
        1 August 2020 10: 47
        Quote: Serg Koma
        California's Great White Shark Diaspora is one of the largest in the world.

        White shark population.
        1. +3
          1 August 2020 15: 07
          Can we also call it a community?
        2. +3
          1 August 2020 16: 07
          If sharks have a grеencard or even a visa, then yes, diaspora smile
          1. +6
            1 August 2020 16: 32
            Quote: dzvero
            If sharks have a grеencard or even a visa, then yes, diaspora smile

            Shark life matters!
            1. +7
              1 August 2020 16: 36
              You are wrong - only the life of black sharks !!! Whites - for soap / under the knife / shoot / in prison and generally off the pedestals / on your knees / kissing boots smile
              1. +4
                1 August 2020 16: 38
                Quote: dzvero
                You are wrong - only the life of black sharks !!!

                I'm sorry! Lost. Whites for the soup. And the blue ones? wassat
                1. +1
                  1 August 2020 16: 45
                  It depends on what. Girls - for re-education smile ; boys - ... banned ...
            2. +2
              1 August 2020 18: 19
              Quote: Vasyan1971
              Quote: dzvero
              If sharks have a grеencard or even a visa, then yes, diaspora smile

              Shark life matters!

              Therefore, they need to be fed.
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    5. 0
      1 August 2020 22: 25
      In California, water above +19 degrees Celsius does not heat up in summer.
    6. 0
      3 August 2020 08: 59
      They were not on the boat, but on the LVTP7 amphibious amphibious armored personnel carrier ..
  3. 0
    1 August 2020 09: 47
    Not an easy and dangerous job, whatever one may say!
  4. -1
    1 August 2020 09: 57
    ... Five were able to return to the battleship, from which the landing was carried out.

    Sergeants boys, and vacation 10 days. Apart from the road ...
    1. 0
      2 August 2020 15: 06
      Quote: Jovanni
      Sergeants

      As I understand it, their sergeant is like a tsarist sergeant. The whole army is based on their training. In this case, it is useless to give sergeants in one bath and without proper skills / experience. What would such a sergeant teach the rank and file then?
      1. 0
        10 August 2020 04: 00
        Quote: Boris ⁣Razor
        What would such a sergeant teach the rank and file then?

        Survive in extreme conditions.
  5. +2
    1 August 2020 10: 01
    The Americans have one strange tendency: they can simultaneously use both modern machines and outright trash in the army. I think the problem is in the technical condition of the landing craft.
    1. +3
      1 August 2020 10: 51
      Quote: APASUS
      I think the problem is in the technical condition of the landing craft

      The sea, like a woman, is unpredictable and changeable. You can expect everything from him, and it makes you be on the alert, if you relax, then count "kyrdyk".
  6. +3
    1 August 2020 10: 07
    Alien From
    Not an easy and dangerous job, whatever one may say!
    And then there is no need to twist, tk. serve under a contract (voluntarily for a salary and privileges for further study ...) and understand perfectly well that anything can happen in the army. Especially in the American one, which has spread all over the world and provoked many military conflicts.
    1. +3
      1 August 2020 11: 12
      They don't understand anything! In the main, they are also for poverty in the army, a small percentage of just warriors lubet fighters. And for poverty, he is forced to kill Lude all over the world, they can be considered slaves! So they perish like a rabbi.
      1. 0
        1 August 2020 15: 10
        Are you a Bulgarian or a Moldovan? Can't understand what you want to say?
        1. +1
          1 August 2020 15: 23
          It seems Bulgarian. hi
          1. -1
            1 August 2020 15: 44
            Do they have no one to talk to? Is the NATO military unit not working?
            1. +4
              1 August 2020 15: 53
              Yes, it looks like he did not care about NATO.
      2. 0
        1 August 2020 18: 55
        Don't shit any crap.
  7. +4
    1 August 2020 10: 50
    As far as I remember, there are many great white sharks, so perhaps only body fragments will be found, at best. ..
    1. +1
      1 August 2020 11: 45
      Quote: Thrifty
      As far as I remember, there are many great white sharks, so perhaps only body fragments will be found, at best.

      If they haven't died before, then yes.
  8. +2
    1 August 2020 11: 53
    They can't even land on their own shore
  9. 0
    1 August 2020 13: 19
    they wanted to penetrate the base of underwater aliens
  10. -1
    1 August 2020 14: 58
    you can only sympathize with your family
    1. 0
      1 August 2020 19: 37
      Quote: makasan34
      you can only sympathize with your family

      And the relatives of those whom these marines killed in Iraq, in Grenada, etc. - no?
  11. +3
    1 August 2020 15: 05
    I look at the navy, the organizational conclusions are not made. I wonder how they managed, if five escaped on their own. This happened in visibility from the UDC or the coast. What is going on there at all? The life of a Marine is not important?
    1. +1
      1 August 2020 15: 37
      And the Navy or the Navy?
      1. 0
        1 August 2020 15: 40
        Can't fix it anymore, of course the Navy. hi
  12. ZVS
    0
    1 August 2020 16: 49
    Why look for them? They are the same marines, so they march to the shore along the bottom. They will come out themselves.
  13. -1
    1 August 2020 18: 53
    It's a pity of course the guys, by the way, but there are sharks there, can anyone know?
    1. 0
      1 August 2020 20: 32
      This is the home of great white sharks.
      1. 0
        2 August 2020 09: 23
        Then I don't envy them.
        1. 0
          2 August 2020 09: 28
          I would correct you. If they find life jackets without bodies, for example, in a boat at a regular place, then they certainly can not be envied. They blame them on the criminal negligence of the victims themselves. With insurance, relatives fly by.
  14. 0
    3 August 2020 09: 03
    The United States Marine Corps announced that the search for seven missing Marines and one sailor has ceased following an incident in southern California. All military personnel are presumed dead.

    “It was with a heavy heart that I made the decision to complete the search and rescue operation,” said the 15th Marine Expeditionary Force commander Christopher Bronzi. "The Marines, sailors and Coast Guard have shown tremendous dedication in the rescue operation."

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