What’s the proper penalty for drinking and napping on the job? The decision becomes a bit easier when the employee is a sentry on a nuclear submarine.
A watchman was caught drinking beer and falling asleep on a British nuclear submarine. The same sub crashed into rocks in the Red Sea last month, but the British Ministry of Defense says the two incidents are unrelated.
The sleepy, drunk watchman incident came to light after newspaper, The Sun, gained access to cell phone footage of an officer warning his crew about “unacceptable” behavior.
The crewman has been removed from the HMS Superb pending an investigation.
The crash in the Red Sea damaged the sub’s sonar equipment and forced it to surface. The Superb’s future is uncertain, but it might have to be scrapped due to the damage it suffered.
