Submarine hits ship
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kind of ironic seeing as they were in a sub
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Re: Submarine hits ship
Clearly the tanker was hi-jacked by Islamic terrorists, chased down and rammed the sub whilst going full astern.
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was the sub submergered or surfaced?? if it was submerged they only use passive sonar, meaning they only listen..the dont go "ping" like in the movies surfaced someone should have been on the conning tower and had radar operational..either way I still cant figure out how this happens..been 25 years since I did sub duty...but whale are ungodly loud..frieghters are deafening...
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was the sub submergered or surfaced?? if it was submerged they only use passive sonar, meaning they only listen..the dont go "ping" like in the movies surfaced someone should have been on the conning tower and had radar operational..either way I still cant figure out how this happens..been 25 years since I did sub duty...but whale are ungodly loud..frieghters are deafening...
And Cuda is right, that commander will be reassigned and most likely lose his commission (fired).
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Re: Submarine hits ship
was the sub submergered or surfaced?? if it was submerged they only use passive sonar, meaning they only listen..the dont go "ping" like in the movies surfaced someone should have been on the conning tower and had radar operational..either way I still cant figure out how this happens..been 25 years since I did sub duty...but whale are ungodly loud..frieghters are deafening...
the way this happens is the Jap tanker is extremely smooth running, and a sonar guy thinks it is a rain extremely..... till the "THUMP"....
a submarine running real close to the surface has no sonar for practrical purposes, to much wave action hitting the sonar dome.
It is the skippers fault, no matter what, if it happens on a boat, the skipper gets the glory or the blame. A few sonar guys, and a weapons officer will also get reassigned and not advance again, if they are not demoted. Sometimes schit just happens, but when it does on a boat, careers are ended real fast...
Last edited by dean51267; 01-10-2007 at 07:35 AM.