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Nuclear Sub Damage Linked to Tracing Paper

British vessel runs aground because of nautical chart mishap

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted May 23, 2008 1:29 PM CDT

(Newser) – Investigators have found the culprit behind a $10 million nuclear submarine accident: Tracing paper. HMS Trafalgar struck the seabed in 2002 because a piece of tracing paper obscured key details on a nautical chart, the Guardian reports. Read full story »

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