Most of 1977 was spent doing weekly operations out of San Diego and recovering from the overhaul that was completed in the early part of that year. At the completion of one such operation "Sculpin" had returned and tied up to the tender, and was broadsided by the "USS Snook SSN 592" while "Snook" was trying to tie up next to "Sculpin". "Snook" suffered damage to her bow tube outer doors and had to spend the next 6 weeks in drydock for repairs, forcing "Sculpin" back to sea to pick up "Snook's" operating schedule.