ExatFromOK writes:
"israel felt its national survival was at stake, so they did what they thought they had to to stop the flow of information. You will note they did not sink; they damaged it to the point in which they thought it could no longer transmit. You will also note we did not respond because it would have brought into sharp focus world-wide the mission and activites of that ship."
Note in photograph the extensive damage done by bombing, straffing and torpedos in photo. You don't tropedo a ship just to prevent electronic signals from being received or transmitted.
Most people thing a torpedo hits a ship and explodes. Not true.
A torpedo travels under a ship and as soon as the magnetic signature decreases, that is it just passes under the ship it detonates. This creates a high pressure bubble that raised the ship in the water then lets it fall back, one of those two actions breaks the back of the ship, that breaks the keel and the ship sinks.
If the Liberty had been successfully torpedoed it would have gone down. No DC could have saved it.
