Bad Weather Disappointment!!

Lato79 · 02-14-17, 10:31 AM

While on patrol off the eastern coast of Indochina my sonar man picked up a single contact, which turned out to be a Japanese merchant, alone, headed for Camranh Bay. I closed to within visual range, which was tricky as the seas where very heavy, but the sky was clear and visibility good. I actually laughed to myself that you could see the ship pitching about in the waves. Bow up first then stern, from a good 10nm away. I began to set up my approach and accelerated ahead of him on his plotted course and pulled up perpendicular about 2000y off and began readying my tubes. All this time I was getting my sound man to relay contact details. And was also checking the sonar bearing plot on the map. All of a sudden the sonar contact goes dead, the bearing indicator dissappears and to my surprise on the map a little ship sunk icon turns up!? I immediately surface the boat and head over at flank speed to investigate but nothing. I can only presume she sank in heavy seas?... Really interested to know if anyone else has had this or anything similar happen?

02-14-17, 10:31 AM	#1
Lato79 Watch Join Date: Jan 2016 Location: Sussex. England. Posts: 27 Downloads: 88 Uploads: 0	Bad Weather Disappointment!! While on patrol off the eastern coast of Indochina my sonar man picked up a single contact, which turned out to be a Japanese merchant, alone, headed for Camranh Bay. I closed to within visual range, which was tricky as the seas where very heavy, but the sky was clear and visibility good. I actually laughed to myself that you could see the ship pitching about in the waves. Bow up first then stern, from a good 10nm away. I began to set up my approach and accelerated ahead of him on his plotted course and pulled up perpendicular about 2000y off and began readying my tubes. All this time I was getting my sound man to relay contact details. And was also checking the sonar bearing plot on the map. All of a sudden the sonar contact goes dead, the bearing indicator dissappears and to my surprise on the map a little ship sunk icon turns up!? I immediately surface the boat and head over at flank speed to investigate but nothing. I can only presume she sank in heavy seas?... Really interested to know if anyone else has had this or anything similar happen? __________________ TMO 2.5 RSRDC TMO v502 OTC 1.5 16x9 TMO Plot Bigger Better Protractors.