HowardMilner
04-02-13, 10:49 AM
Is there a sound effect associated with the sub "skimming" the sea bottom, but not necessarily taking damage? I ask because I just completed an infiltration of Manila Bay to photograph some escort carriers that were so far north in the shallows that I eventually bottomed my sub just as I was trying to get out after getting the pictures. I took 10% hull damage and might have damaged my batteries (I still have to get out and back to sea).
I got into the bay easily because it was pouring rain and heavy fog, and I found a place to sit in about 105ft of water near the middle while I waited for the weather to clear. It took two days of submerged days and sitting on the surface at night, with patrols crisscrossing endlessly around me. Finally the third day it cleared and at twilight I surfaced and started off to the objective.
I wove my way around and between multiple DD patrols, usually with two in sight at a time to get to the target. At one point I had one dead on my stern with a zero angle at about 4000yds, I was sure I was cooked. But he didn't see me.
But twice during the ingress I was startled by a sound that was like a large volume of air rushing out of the sub. I couldn't figure out what it was, I figured the first time I was being shot at. But nothing happened and there was no damage.
But just after getting the pictures and turning to the south I had collisions with the bottom. Very frustrating. I was wondering if those previous sounds might have been some kind of warning about the depth being so shallow that the sub could not even draw enough water ahead.
I got into the bay easily because it was pouring rain and heavy fog, and I found a place to sit in about 105ft of water near the middle while I waited for the weather to clear. It took two days of submerged days and sitting on the surface at night, with patrols crisscrossing endlessly around me. Finally the third day it cleared and at twilight I surfaced and started off to the objective.
I wove my way around and between multiple DD patrols, usually with two in sight at a time to get to the target. At one point I had one dead on my stern with a zero angle at about 4000yds, I was sure I was cooked. But he didn't see me.
But twice during the ingress I was startled by a sound that was like a large volume of air rushing out of the sub. I couldn't figure out what it was, I figured the first time I was being shot at. But nothing happened and there was no damage.
But just after getting the pictures and turning to the south I had collisions with the bottom. Very frustrating. I was wondering if those previous sounds might have been some kind of warning about the depth being so shallow that the sub could not even draw enough water ahead.