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The ship floating is not the surprising part. It’s the fact seawater was into everything.
Dip your computer into the sea for a few weeks, it isn’t going to be happy about it.
Some of the ship never made it into the water during the launch, and the water it did go into was presumably shallow. It might be that a relatively small portion of the ship was actually immersed.
The problem honestly isn't even the seawater, necessarily. Even that is technically fixable.
Where it gets potentially unfixable is that most naval architects seem to think that the ship probably twisted her keel lying in that position. Non-naval-architects might not appreciate what a catastrophic problem that is, to put it roughly in automotive terms that's like having a twisted frame on a car (it's actually significantly worse, but that's the closest layperson analogy you're likely to get). There's nothing you can do to to a twisted frame to exactly straighten it, and it will never drive "properly" again, in fact it can be extremely unstable and unsafe. Cars that this happens to are basically without exception considered "totaled" and for good reason.
Ships, in general, and warships, in particular, can be put under pretty extreme forces by the water they are in, especially at high speeds or heavy seas, and even small imperfections in the shape of the hull can cause very serious hydrodynamic drag and forces. These effects can be even stronger and more dramatic than aerodynamic effects on cars or airplanes since the water itself is so much thicker and heavier as a fluid. A ship with a twisted hull is almost certainly a write-off, and if you stubbornly refuse to accept that and do everything you can to mitigate it, even if you are lucky it will still likely be a poor, dangerous sailer that can never safely approach anything near the sort of speeds it was originally designed to achieve. A warship that can only go half the speed, and half the range it was designed to, with a non-negligible chance that it may be so poorly handling that it is at least uncomfortable and hard to crew, if not actually dangerous or even doomed in heavy weather, is not a very useful warship, no matter how hard you are committed to putting it into service despite the damage.
Yeah, maybe it still floats, but that's only a small part of what a ship is actually expected to be able to do in the real world, and "modern warship" is a pretty unforgiving role that needs every bit of performance the ship is supposed to be able to provide. It's not a situation where you can accept having a scratch-and-dent salvage title if you want it to actually be good at its job. That's why people are considering this a total loss (and it still will be no matter how much work they put into it).
Thanks for an amazing explanation of the problems. 👍
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