SubSim Meet 2009 Videos

[martes86]

Hi fellas,

I've decided it's better to keep all videos in one place (so they don't get lost), so I'll be posting here the videos I publish.

Visit to U-995 (16th): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAJm19DLorg
Visit to HDMS Sælen (17th): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNgFzXmApQY
Sailing in the Nautilus (18th): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_TRbZMzs8 (part I)
---------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3FoSavlSZU (part II)
---------------------------- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1cJXa7DsrA (part III)


You can also view the stuff through here: http://www.youtube.com/user/Mix38

Cheers :rock:

[Platapus]

Thanks for posting the videos. Although I have to admit I got seasick when you got to the submarine. :oops:

Looks like a good time was had by all. :up:

[martes86]

Indeed it was. I have to reupload Saelen's visit video, and upload the Nautilus ride parts one & two (and probably three). :DL

[martes86]

Updated the Saelen video (the first part was in black) and uploaded the first day in the Nautilus (and it's a three-parter for just that day, and I still have to upload the stuff from the 19th!).

Enjoy! :salute:

[Sailor Steve]

What's already there is very cool! Thanks for putting these up.:rock:

[Jimbuna]

Thanks for the great links, I was at the Texas Meet the year before and was looking so forward to Denmark but the 2009 Meet coincided with my 25th wedding anniversary.

[martes86]

Thanks for the great links, I was at the Texas Meet the year before and was looking so forward to Denmark but the 2009 Meet coincided with my 25th wedding anniversary.

Well, a romantic ride on the submarine at night through the port would have definitely kicked ass. :O:

[KeptinCranky]

Hey,

thanks for putting these up, mate :yeah:

It was good to see a "what I did on my vacation" film

Well done! :arrgh!:

[Chad]

Thanks Martes :D

Brought back some memories and something else to show my folks and girlfriend of my trip to Europe :)

[martes86]

Brought back some memories and something else to show my folks and girlfriend of my trip to Europe :)

I hope she endures the more than 35 minutes of absoulete geekness video, my parents couldn't endure the longer stuff (uncut versions). :D

[maerean_m]

great memories :up:

[Jimbuna]

Well, a romantic ride on the submarine at night through the port would have definitely kicked ass. :O:

That in itself sounds fine....its the pirate crew I'd have concerns about :D

[martes86]

That in itself sounds fine....its the pirate crew I'd have concerns about :D

Har!

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[Onkel Neal]

Thanks, mate, you :rock:

That meet and sub ride was plus-ten awesome, I doubt I will ever experience anything as cool as that again in my life.

[martes86]

The guy who filmed it needs to take more practice in moving the camera steadily..

Sorry, I know it's shaky, but emotions had me those days. The videos are a visual testimony of them, and the shaking also contributes to say how we felt about it, including myself (filming guy :DL ). Probably if recorded on a second ocassion, it might not be as shaky. :ping:

Cheers :rock:

[Von Hinten]

Ah, these vids bring back great memories (and slightly painful when I stalled the sub's engine. :oops: Thank you for not leaving that out ... ). What a meet! When is the next one due? :up:

[martes86]

Hahahaha, sorry about that... but it was a priceless moment (just as the failed docking was hehe), like about anything on that day, it contributed to realism. :O:
Though, honestly, I didn't notice you stalled it when I rendered the videos, it wasn't really done on purpose. :haha:

The next one, well, I got lucky and I was able to work on the videos without being bothered all day... these last days, not so much... anyways, I hope it isn't long before I put the last videos (all that lasts is footage from the 19th and I don't know yet if it will be one or several parts, and Dan's headcam über-videos, though I didn't have plans for that one, there's too much stuff to cut).

Cheers :rock:

[Von Hinten]

Going over 'the docking sequence' again, something occurred to me: the name submarine simulation may not the best one chosen for the games we play. Allow me to explain.

When someone practices enough with a flight simulator like MS Flightsim, one could actually not only get a plane up and running but with a fair amount of certainty get that baby up in the air and most likely down again as well. And I mean down as in safely landed in one piece, not the kind of down that gravity itself so happily provides.

And a few people who have been using racing simulators for a number of years, have been able to make a pretty decent attempt at a racing career. It's not likely they'll be the next Indy or Daytona 500 champion at their first attempt, but still: they can handle a racing car pretty well.

When watching us however, the Subsim crew, on average (yours truly sadly not included) adversaries not to be taken lightly when it comes to operating the various submarine simulations, trying a brave attempts at operating a sub, giving engineering a futile attempt (yours truly undeniably included), throwing around landlines, etc.

Well, I doubt that showing these vids to a sub commander will help us getting a job aboard a submarine that much easier. :arrgh!:

[martes86]

Yeah, they'd probably tell us we've seen Das Boot too many times. :har: