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Richard Santos

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There is no bow wave or wake. The ship isn’t going at any appreciable speed. The list can’t be attributed to turning. The ship is out of trim for some reason.
 

by78

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Why does the ship show a conspicuous list to port?

also, the hull appear to have underwater blister or bulge on the port side. This has not been commented on AFAIK.

Assuming by blisters you mean what you see protruding near the waterline on the port side, they are not blisters but are instead water being expelled from the ballast tanks on the port side. This image was taken quite some time ago, when PLAN was presumably still shaking her down. The image appears to depict the ballast being tested, which would explain the slight listing to port side.
 

lcloo

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There is no bow wave or wake. The ship isn’t going at any appreciable speed. The list can’t be attributed to turning. The ship is out of trim for some reason.
Possibly they are moving the ballast from one side to another, the "blisters" are just water pumped out from (ballast) tanks inside the ship. I would guess that they were doing drill on damage control to simulate missile hits causng sea water flooding rooms on one side of the ship, and to rebalane the listed ship by pumping water and adjusting ballast to make the ship level again.

This has happened many time to USN ships that were hit by missiles or collissions.
 

by78

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