The Secnav's preliminary inquiry on the USS Fitzgerald’s collision with the ACX Crystal cargo ship.

http://www.secnav.navy.mil/foia/readingroom/HotTopics/USS%20Fitzgerald/Supplemental%20Inquiry%20USS%20Fitzgerald.pdf

I suspect the Navy vets in our midst will have a much more gut feel for the events described, but it would easily be translatable to a collision or battle damage in space, just substitute ‘water rushing in’ with 'air rushing out and gravity going weird’ because losing *some* parts of your gravity is going to make for some serious disorientation, even for personnel trained in zero g.

For example, things could fall fall sideways or worse, off in weird corkscrew vectors, and the direction depends on how close you are to neighboring antigrav and inertial compensation unit in the hulland how damages they are, etc.

Now consider the kind of training setups you would need to have effective crew training for such events…..I’d imagine the simulators would get called ‘grav pong boxes’ quite quickly….

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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