US Navy owes $1,500,000 for damage to reef after a minesweeper ran aground on it, Philippines says

[EmperorScorpious]

[quote](CNN) -- The U.S. government is getting its bill for the damage a Navy minesweeper did to a Philippine coral reef, and it's less than expected.

Philippine officials say the USS Guardian damaged 2,346 square meters (25,252 square feet) of Tubbataha Reef after it ran aground January 17. That's down from the original estimate of about 4,000 square meters (43,000 square feet).

And that means, under Philippine law, the United States owes $1.5 million in fines, the Tubbataha Protected Area Management Board said in a posting on the Tubbahata Reefs Natural Park website Monday.

The fines are based on the amount of reef that has been damaged, the state-run Philippine News Agency reported.

The Tubbahata board said the revised damage estimate was made by a team of U.S. Navy and Philippine marine biologists from Wednesday to Friday.
The original survey was conducted January 27 while the warship was still on the reef.[/quote]

[url]http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/08/world/asia/navy-ship-philippine-reef/index.html?hpt=hp_t2[/url]

[W0w00t]

1.5 million is nothing

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for the us government

[Noth]

[QUOTE=W0w00t;40207933]1.5 million is nothing

[editline]8th April 2013[/editline]

for the us government[/QUOTE]

Still won't pay it though

[Protocol7]

[QUOTE=W0w00t;40207933]1.5 million is nothing

[editline]8th April 2013[/editline]

for the us government[/QUOTE]

It really is, 1.5 million is only 0.00000008% of the deficit

[Gordy H.]

[QUOTE=Noth;40207958]Still won't pay it though[/QUOTE]

The US probably will, actually. They're pretty close allies.

[cqbcat]

Let's just say that savin' their asses during World War II and providing tremendous amounts of maritime security should be enough to disregard the damage fee.

[Sobotnik]

[QUOTE=cqbcat;40208500]Let's just say that savin' their asses during World War II and providing tremendous amounts of maritime security should be enough to disregard the damage fee.[/QUOTE]

they invaded them too and waited half a century to give independence

[Harnbrand]

[QUOTE=cqbcat;40208500]Let's just say that savin' their asses during World War II and providing tremendous amounts of maritime security should be enough to disregard the damage fee.[/QUOTE]
Once in a while, it'd do you good to learn some history. Read a book, broaden your horizons.

It does no good to be seen as a moron.

[Shitty Bill]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40208600]they invaded them too and waited half a century to give independence[/QUOTE]

There was also that 20-year period where they backed a dictator. That was pretty great of them.

[DesolateGrun]

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40208600]they invaded them too and waited half a century to give independence[/QUOTE]

pretty sure we allowed for internment camps for the freedom fighters and their families over there to happen.

[yawmwen]

[QUOTE=cqbcat;40208500]Let's just say that savin' their asses during World War II and providing tremendous amounts of maritime security should be enough to disregard the damage fee.[/QUOTE]

didn't the usa also support a murderous regime there?

[Moustacheman]

[QUOTE=cqbcat;40208500]Let's just say that savin' their asses during World War II and providing tremendous amounts of maritime security should be enough to disregard the damage fee.[/QUOTE]

Disregard that MacArthur was a fucking moron going there in the first place and wasting valuable resources to make his penor look big, when the Philippines would have been liberated even if we just hopped through the strategic points.

[🅱️🅰️LLS. ➿]

[QUOTE=cqbcat;40208500]Let's just say that savin' their asses during World War II and providing tremendous amounts of maritime security should be enough to disregard the damage fee.[/QUOTE]

Spoken like a true American.