Sick US Navy sailors expose the vile murky water they drink and wash with that tastes like FUEL
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‘It smells like s**t:’ Sick US Navy sailors expose the vile cloudy water they’re forced to drink and wash with, which tastes like FUEL – as officials admit was contaminated with garbage and E.coli
- US Navy sailors uncovered the ship’s contaminated, gray drinking water aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln
- The Lincoln, a nearly 40-year-old ship that sails the Pacific Ocean and is a member of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet
- The videos, provided to Insider, show grey, cloudy water coming out of the ship’s drinking fountains and sinks, which the Navy has confirmed had E. coli.
- A sailor called the conditions – first noticed in mid-September – “terrible” and said the water sometimes looked black and in a video said it smelled “like s**t”
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U.S. Navy sailors uncovered the ship’s contaminated, gray drinking water aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which officials eventually confirmed had the presence of E. coli.
The Lincoln, a nearly 40-year-old ship that sails the Pacific Ocean and is a member of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet.
The ship was recently part of the first joint naval exercise in waters between Japan and the Korean Peninsula in five years.
The videos, which were provided to Insidershow gray, cloudy water coming from the ship’s drinking fountains and sinks, with the Navy confirmed E. coli bacteria were present in three of the 26 drinking water tanks.
A sailor called the conditions – first noted in mid-September – “terrible” and said the water sometimes looked black and said in a video on YouTube that it “smelled like s**t.”
U.S. Navy sailors uncovered the ship’s contaminated, gray drinking water aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, which officials eventually confirmed had the presence of E. coli.
The videos, provided to Insider, show grey, cloudy water coming out of the ship’s drinking fountains and sinks, where the Navy has confirmed E. coli bacteria were present in three of the 26 drinking water tanks.
A sailor called the conditions – first noticed in mid-September – “terrible” and said the water sometimes appeared black and said in a video on YouTube it smelled “like s**t”.
The Lincoln, a nearly 40-year-old ship that sails the Pacific Ocean and is a member of the United States Navy’s Pacific Fleet
The Navy tested for the bacteria and found it on Sept. 22, but didn’t find out what was causing the odor until a month later.
In a statement to DailyMail.com, the Navy said it discovered on Oct. 21 that the water supply was contaminated by sewage collected in the vessel’s guts.
The Navy says the waste entered the drinking water tanks through a hole in the tank’s vent line, which is also what caused the gray, cloudy water.
An unnamed sailor said the polluted water was “inevitable” and said his fellow seamen had stomach problems after drinking but had to go back to work.
Some of the men on board had rashes after drinking and possibly washing in the water. The Navy has denied that seamen had any health problems.
The Navy tested for the bacteria and found it on September 22, but didn’t find out what was causing the odor until a month later
In a statement to DailyMail.com, the Navy said it discovered on Oct. 21 that the water supply had been contaminated by sewage collected in the vessel’s gut.
After they complained to a commanding officer, he acknowledged that the bacteria was in the water, but he wouldn’t say definitively whether it was a good or bad thing, and no one was ever told not to drink it.
While the Navy claims it supplied bottled water to the crew on board, sailors said it was difficult to find.
It was a problem anyway, said one sailor: “Even if we choose not to drink water for a few days, you still can’t escape it because we still have to shower, we were still eating. .. they cook everything with water.’
One sailor even said they were confused: “I felt like we were going crazy because [the commanding officer] sat here and told us there’s nothing in it, but we’re sitting here drinking and smelling it and it just smells awful.’
The anonymous midshipman also criticized the Navy: “It’s always the mission in their head. That’s what they say all the time. It’s always the mission that comes first for them, even if it puts other lives at risk.”
They added that the foul odor of the water from the waste still lingers in the ship.
Notably, the ship is scheduled to host a college basketball game that will be broadcast on ESPN in prime time on Nov. 11 between Gonzaga and the state of Michigan.