SMoking Submarine scares Sydneysiders...

[TarJak]

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/snort-what-they-thought-it-was/2008/01/25/1201157610471.html

[August]

OMG polluters! :o Get Algore on the phone! ;)

[darius359au]

I like the bit in the story about the "Ageing" sub :o , must be abit of a suprise for the RAN to hear that collins class sub's are ageing seeing most of them are less than 10years old.

[bookworm_020]

So much for stealth! Looks like they're are fueled with whale oil!

[Oberon]

Well, at least it's afloat!

Where's Stewy! I sense some Collins-bashing on the way :up: :lol:

[Konovalov]

Well, at least it's afloat!

Where's Stewy! I sense some Collins-bashing on the way :up: :lol:

Yeah but we would get our revenge with Sub Command, SCXIIc, and the sub changer utility. :lurk:

[sonar732]

I remember those one liners we threw at our Aussie friends about the Collins. :rotfl::rotfl:

'Wonder how long it would take to check them out in the archives?

[Jimbuna]

I'd have thought their concerns/shock had nothing to do with the smoke, but more to do with the fact they'd never seen one moving before :lol:

[STEED]

OMG polluters! :o Get Algore on the phone! ;)

I hear he's on his way in his paddling boat, should take about six months to a year. :lol:

[Oberon]

I'd have thought their concerns/shock had nothing to do with the smoke, but more to do with the fact they'd never seen one moving before :lol:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[FIREWALL]

I got a neighbor with a old Buick that smokes more than that sub.

He calls it a CLASSIC

I call it a piece of S**T

[Jimbuna]

I got a neighbor with a old Buick that smokes more than that sub.

He calls it a CLASSIC

I call it a piece of S**T

LOL :lol:

[baggygreen]

I certainly woulda been stunned to see it moving.. jaw-dropper that!

I'm a tad confused by the story, if it was moving between Garden Is and Jervis Bay, why was it off the northern beaches?? southern i can understand, but not northern?

if the collins is aging now, what'll it be in 15 od years when they're due for retirement?!?

[diver]

This is just a perfect sum up of how un-proffesional and incompetant reporting on defence is in Australia, never more than whren reporting on the subs.

"ageing" my @rse.

And Channel 9 breaking into regular programming to show live footage from its chopper of a "submarine on fire", somebody's head should roll.

And all your collins bashing jokes dont help, they are stupid, and ad fuel to these "journalists" cr@p stories. Go smoke some pole.



I'm a tad confused by the story, if it was moving between Garden Is and Jervis Bay, why was it off the northern beaches?? southern i can understand, but not northern?

if the collins is aging now, what'll it be in 15 od years when they're due for retirement?!?

They may have got it wrong about coming from JB. Or the subs may have just been doing racetracks and stooging off the coast waiting to enter the harbour late morning.

[SUBMAN1]

OMG polluters! :o Get Algore on the phone! ;):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Oberon]

And all your collins bashing jokes dont help, they are stupid, and ad fuel to these "journalists" cr@p stories. Go smoke some pole.


Easy mate, it's an old joke between friends, goes back to the good old days of SCXII and SCU. Trust me, I don't really think the Collins is a bad boat, I think she's a class act, I mean, she's taken on the US fleet before and done well. :up: Just ask Stewy about the ribbing we used to give him back in the run up to SCXII, all given and taken in good humour. :rock:

[Jimbuna]

ALAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRMMM!!! http://imgcash4.imageshack.us/img504/2364/submarinecp8.gif

Keep ya hair on Bruce http://imgcash2.imageshack.us/img134/9742/angry8se2.gif

It's a real friendly community we have here http://forums.randi.org/images/smilies/grouphug5.gif

We all give a little friendly mickey take now and then, but we all take it equally as well http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

No harm or insult was intended http://imgcash3.imageshack.us/img412/4774/thumbsuplargeon1.gif

[Konovalov]

And all your collins bashing jokes dont help, they are stupid, and ad fuel to these "journalists" cr@p stories. Go smoke some pole.


Easy mate, it's an old joke between friends, goes back to the good old days of SCXII and SCU. Trust me, I don't really think the Collins is a bad boat, I think she's a class act, I mean, she's taken on the US fleet before and done well. :up: Just ask Stewy about the ribbing we used to give him back in the run up to SCXII, all given and taken in good humour. :rock:

Exactly. That's how this Aussie remembered it back in the Sub Command forum days. Ahhh the memories. :sunny:

[bookworm_020]

This is just a perfect sum up of how un-proffesional and incompetant reporting on defence is in Australia, never more than whren reporting on the subs.

"ageing" my @rse.

And Channel 9 breaking into regular programming to show live footage from its chopper of a "submarine on fire", somebody's head should roll.

It's the commerical media, what did you expect? The Truth????:hmm::hmm:

[Boris]

I certainly woulda been stunned to see it moving.. jaw-dropper that!

I'm a tad confused by the story, if it was moving between Garden Is and Jervis Bay, why was it off the northern beaches?? southern i can understand, but not northern?

if the collins is aging now, what'll it be in 15 od years when they're due for retirement?!?

Well, strictly speaking, a submarine starts ageing as soon as it leaves the shipyard, much like a new born baby will age until it eventually dies some 80 years later.

[TarJak]

Well, strictly speaking, a submarine starts ageing as soon as it leaves the shipyard, much like a new born baby will age until it eventually dies some 80 years later.Good point Boris, but I'm not getting into no 80yr old submarine!:lol:

[bookworm_020]

Good point Boris, but I'm not getting into no 80yr old submarine!:lol:

Unless it's one at a museum!:yep: Then you would have to ry and stop me getting aboard!:up:

[TarJak]

Rgr that! Mind you if it's still floating after 80 years then it must have been built right!

[Jimbuna]

The real situation/issue is technology overtaking it (the sub) and not it's actual physical age.
Just look at some of the boats that have been preserved from WWII and earlier :arrgh!:

[Stealth Hunter]

OMG polluters! :o Get Algore on the phone! ;)

AND READY HIS JET!