Ghost Ship!

[JEuler]

I was on my way to the patrol area west of gibraltar when during a routine hydrophone check my hydrophone operator reported
a merchant.I setup an intercept course and soon got visual contact.The weather was perfect,no wind,very good visibility.
Submerged and waited for the ship.It was a large merchant.Measured the speed 7 knots.Lowered the periscope and started
to input the data in TDC.She was 1.5 km away and there was nothing else left to do,just wait until she gets in to the right position.

Nothing unusual so far.

But then the hydrophone operator reported no contact:06:.I know they are a little lazy,so I checked myself,nothing:06:.Raised the
periscope,nothing:06:,made a full circle with the periscope,nothing:06:.Surfaced,the result was again the same,nothing,
no visual contact.:06:The ship disappeared.One moment she was there and a second later disappeared.A real ghost ship:arrgh!:.The
only explanation is that it was a ghost of some large merchant sunked before.They come back to hunt us down:haha:.

[Frank0001]

That's creepy!

Unsinkable merchants which dissapear and haunt you...and steal your tonnage!
Strange though, I only once had something similar: at one point I was being depthcharged by this destroyer and left me after awhile. After following him on the sonar, his sound just disappeared somehow.
After a periscope check, he was chugging away happily at his last known spot. Just without a sound!

[Red Heat]

I was on my way to the patrol area west of gibraltar when during a routine hydrophone check my hydrophone operator reported
a merchant.I setup an intercept course and soon got visual contact.The weather was perfect,no wind,very good visibility.
Submerged and waited for the ship.It was a large merchant.Measured the speed 7 knots.Lowered the periscope and started
to input the data in TDC.She was 1.5 km away and there was nothing else left to do,just wait until she gets in to the right position.

Nothing unusual so far.

But then the hydrophone operator reported no contact:06:.I know they are a little lazy,so I checked myself,nothing:06:.Raised the
periscope,nothing:06:,made a full circle with the periscope,nothing:06:.Surfaced,the result was again the same,nothing,
no visual contact.:06:The ship disappeared.One moment she was there and a second later disappeared.A real ghost ship:arrgh!:.The
only explanation is that it was a ghost of some large merchant sunked before.They come back to hunt us down:haha:.

Its beter you double the guard...untill you see a REAL GHOST SHIP!
Because they REAL Exist... :eek:
If you dont belive me...ask to older Kaleus special those witch they use to sail near Bermudas!

P.S. Have a good night...if you can! lolololol

[papa_smurf]

Are you sure Bernard wasn't operating the hydrophones at the time?:har:

[GoldenRivet]

I was on my way to the patrol area west of gibraltar when during a routine hydrophone check my hydrophone operator reported
a merchant.I setup an intercept course and soon got visual contact.The weather was perfect,no wind,very good visibility.
Submerged and waited for the ship.It was a large merchant.Measured the speed 7 knots.Lowered the periscope and started
to input the data in TDC.She was 1.5 km away and there was nothing else left to do,just wait until she gets in to the right position.

Nothing unusual so far.

But then the hydrophone operator reported no contact:06:.I know they are a little lazy,so I checked myself,nothing:06:.Raised the
periscope,nothing:06:,made a full circle with the periscope,nothing:06:.Surfaced,the result was again the same,nothing,
no visual contact.:06:The ship disappeared.One moment she was there and a second later disappeared.A real ghost ship:arrgh!:.The
only explanation is that it was a ghost of some large merchant sunked before.They come back to hunt us down:haha:.

I suspect your problem is associated with the end waypoint of the ship being reached.

sometimes, upon reaching the last waypoint, the ship in question will vanish into thin air or will be "Deleted" to use the proper terminology

HOWEVER

There are rumors swirling over the sightings of the early 1900s ghost ship "Cyclops" being sited amidst a hazy blue glowing mist completing her voyage of years past through the bermuda triangle.

Her keelhauled captains soul peers through the wheel house windows grasping for an escape from his insane hell.

Call me crazy, but i have seen her with my own eyes.:salute:
100% fact.

only you can find the truth... but the truth is out there, adrift for eternity on that harsh mistress we call the sea.

go find her - if you and your crew dare to explore the unknown.

[PappyCain]

Could she have changed course? Changed speed/stopped? I have had to run to the last known 'mark' to reacquire the vessel.

:salute:

[Kimmers]

O.O the cyclops. how intersting. i have a feeling i'll hear a "ghostly blue ship sighted" in my dreams as i lay in bed today

[Jimbuna]

Yeah.....ship was scripted to 'delete at last waypoint'

I once come across this bugga....and it fires it's cannons at me http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v499/c_jane24/Smileys/4_6_100.gif

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/5308/flyingdutchman2.jpg (http://img31.imageshack.us/i/flyingdutchman2.jpg/)

[JEuler]

I'm absolutely sure that she don't changed course or speed, just vanished!

Probably GoldenRivet and jimbuna has right,that the ship was deleted because she reached the last waypoint,
or maybe some other bug.

Anyway it was a weird experience.

Who knows what else is out there: giant octopus,mermaid...:)

[PappyCain]

... aah, could have been a Gas hydrate release. When there is a subsea eruption the methane will cause a passing vessel entering the realease zone to lose buoyancy and sink. I am quite sure that was it. Methane! What did you eat before you played??

:har::woot::haha:

[GoldenRivet]

Who knows what else is out there: giant octopus,mermaid...:)

Y'know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain't never seen no phantom British Merchant Ship.

;)

[Frank0001]

Next thing they'll claim hearing whales and dolphins on the sonar!

[java`s revenge]

Y'know, I seen me a mermaid once. I even seen me a shark eat an octopus. But I ain't never seen no phantom British Merchant Ship.

;)


And i have seen that an octupus eats a shark.

[Jimbuna]

Next thing they'll claim hearing whales and dolphins on the sonar!

I once heard a shrimp fart whilst in the hydrophone room :smug:

[PappyCain]

Jim,

Shrimp do not fart. They 'frip'. (sort of like the other gender).


http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s218210.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3226787


:har:

[Jimbuna]

That explains the Bermuda Triangle then....tis situated right above a breeding area for shrimps :DL

[gmuno]

Not to forget the giant of the upper depths. When he's gasing, planes explode and small green people with extra long necks start running through the woods...

You've only had a ghostship, i had a task force vanishing. I watched them (map contact) coming up the western scottish coast, moved to intercept, had sound contacts of multiple warships heading my way and all the sudden... zilch, gone with the wind and fallen from the edge...
I had this already a few times with GWX 3 and it always makes me wonder.

[PappyCain]

Yes! That explains the Triangle well. Billions & Zillions & Gillions of shrimp fripping. The release of all that methane could cause a plane to lose lift when it flies into a 'frip release' zone. It too is doomed.

:salute:

[Jimbuna]

You've only had a ghostship, i had a task force vanishing. I watched them (map contact) coming up the western scottish coast, moved to intercept, had sound contacts of multiple warships heading my way and all the sudden... zilch, gone with the wind and fallen from the edge...
I had this already a few times with GWX 3 and it always makes me wonder.

That's the curse of the vanishing waypoint.

[Red Heat]

... aah, could have been a Gas hydrate release. When there is a subsea eruption the methane will cause a passing vessel entering the realease zone to lose buoyancy and sink. I am quite sure that was it. Methane! What did you eat before you played??

:har::woot::haha:


Good one! :haha:

[gmuno]

That's the curse of the vanishing waypoint.

Not really. I've loaded later a savegame and watched this task force tour around Scapa to the Firth of Forth. I was lurking south-west of Scapa during the first encounter, so...

[Jimbuna]

Not really. I've loaded later a savegame and watched this task force tour around Scapa to the Firth of Forth. I was lurking south-west of Scapa during the first encounter, so...

So....check the mission editor to ensure there is no % chance scripted into the possibility of said event (delete at final waypoint).

[gmuno]

So....check the mission editor to ensure there is no % chance scripted into the possibility of said event (delete at final waypoint).
During a campaigne? Ok...