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EoE
12-22-07, 11:40 AM
So there I am, in my IXC-boat with GWX 2.0 in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The cheat radar (slower time compression at x1024) tells me that something is on.

I take the boat down to 25 metres, shut down the engine and start dialing on the hydrophones.

Then this really peculiar sound comes through. The best way I can describe it is a high-pitched oscillating sound; a bit like birds singing, but then again not.

I thought it might be whales singing, but it didn't really sound like anything a tree-hugging hippie would mix with a slow drum beat and call "Ode to Nature's Self-empowerment".

So what was it? A visual search showed absolutely nothing, but it was pretty foggy and stormy as in all my patrols.

thnx/EoE
difool2
12-22-07, 11:49 AM
Dolphins I believe. IIRC the whale "sounds" that you hear on various media have been altered from their original intonations.
EoE
12-22-07, 12:38 PM
Dolphins I believe. IIRC the whale "sounds" that you hear on various media have been altered from their original intonations.

Dolphins, eh? Well, I had no idea. To be honest it must have been two "confused" male dolphins fighting over a silk scarf, 'cause it sure sounded weird.

rgds/EoE
Canovaro
12-22-07, 01:04 PM
Yes it must have been dolphins.
PavelKirilovich
12-22-07, 01:22 PM
What really concerns me is that Flipper showed up on the FuMO.
Paajtor
12-22-07, 03:06 PM
OMG lol.
Blacklight
12-22-07, 03:09 PM
If you can torpedo one, you get extra renown !!!:rock:
Wild_skipper
12-22-07, 03:14 PM
Where do you find these flippers ?
And where do you find those big bunker forts ?
Blacklight
12-22-07, 03:26 PM
It is a well known fact that "Flipper" works for the Americans ! Just watch the TV show !!! "Flipper" is to be torpedoed on sight !
Sailor Steve
12-22-07, 04:56 PM
Not to mention the new secret weapon: Mr. Limpet.




"THRUMMMMMMMMM!"
bigboywooly
12-22-07, 06:21 PM
Where do you find these flippers ?
And where do you find those big bunker forts ?

In their historical places at historical dates

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts
Blacklight
12-22-07, 08:07 PM
Not to mention the new secret weapon: Mr. Limpet.




"THRUMMMMMMMMM!"

Oh my god ! I forgot about Mr. Limpet !!! Someone should pop a mod in so he would appear randomly in the game ! Imagine....
"Ping... Ping.... Ping....." Yes ! They're moving away from us !! "THRUMMMMMMMMM !!!!" *PINGPINGPINGPINGPING !" Oh crap....:dead:

And where do you find those big bunker forts ?

Just wait outside southern England... Eventually they walk out on their legs and begin blasting everything with their death rays ! It's quite a sight to behold !
EoE
12-22-07, 09:18 PM
Well for someone named Flipper its no surprise he squealed like a pig.

rgds/EoE
NiclDoe
12-22-07, 11:24 PM
If you can torpedo one, you get extra renown !!!:rock:
Noooooo you dont!!!! Darth Kpt. will chock you to death or usin his lightsaber
SurfnSea
12-22-07, 11:30 PM
Flipper was cool (one of my favorite tv shows), he/she kicked a** uhh dorsal; I couldn't waste Flipper. Now that Incredible Mr. Limpet dude is another matter; firing one down the throat is an appropriate phrase for that one. Having nothing left but microscopic Fish n Limpet bits would be too good a fate for him I say.

As for those Big Bunker thingys; just wait until you hear 'em rip one, you'll know it when you hear it and know right where they are....wait

...Wild Skipper said Big Bunker F-O-R-T-S, I thought you meant..nevermind just me mistaking the vowel for a similar looking vowel.
Blacklight
12-22-07, 11:50 PM
As I remember in the Mr. Limpet movie, didn't our side devolop some kind of Anti-Mr. Limpet torpedo, mine, or something ?:hmm:
K-61
12-23-07, 08:24 PM
Now ya'll listen up here. Before he was the meek and mild Mr. Limpet, he was the strong arm of the law. Who'd mess with this tough looking dude?:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/K-61/Limpet/_barneyfife.jpg

After clearing all the hoodlums out of Mayberry, he moved on to join the U.S. Navy's efforts to clear the oceans of the U-boat scourge:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/K-61/Limpet/MPW-5830.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/K-61/Limpet/ba_sin68d_don_knotts.jpg

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a299/K-61/Limpet/Limp068.jpg
Blacklight
12-24-07, 01:52 AM
It's amazing ! I hadn't thought about the fact that outside our U-boats while we're submerged that it's all a cartoon out there with cartoon fish swimming around !!!:hmm:

This is why I forbid my crew to go swimming. I just warn them... "Don't jump in there... You'll become a cartoon !" and they stay inside where it's nice and safe. Unfortunately, after hearing this, Bernard has been OBSESSED with jumping in. We've had to restrain him. A live action Bernard is bad enough, but there's no telling what kind of damage a cartoon Bernard can do.:nope: