dolphins and whales????

[Mooncatt]

as ive just got GW my friend has told me that he has seen dolphins and whales is this right or is he pulling my chain????? i have a £1 resting on this lol, wot other cool mods have been added to GW thats cool eye candy? besides the obvious i.e skins dials etc

[bigboywooly]

Dolpins yes
Whales no - though someone was working to introduce them and a few other sea creatures
Call it a draw then :rotfl:

[Mooncatt]

lmao yes ok thanx :D

[Kruger]

Now..that you mentioned it. Is there any recorded case of a U-Boot being damaged by a marine life form ?

[Yahoshua]

Along those lines, I remember a story of a U-boot crew torpedoing a ship and then seeing something that had a large body and a snake-like neck with fins jump out of the water. It was the only reported sighting of the creature.

[bigboywooly]

Now..that you mentioned it. Is there any recorded case of a U-Boot being damaged by a marine life form ?

No but IIRC a post war sub was damaged in a collision with a whale

Will try to find link when have a moment

[Wilko]

I have never seen a dolphin in my GW game, will keep a eye out but


I wonder how many whales/dolphin were killed by depth charges during the war :hmm:

[bigboywooly]

Not sure but a load since
This is a paragraph on whales and American sonar tests

Aquatic Ecosystems

Noise, Boat Collisions and Debris

The once quiet oceans now rumble with huge cargo, cruise and naval ships whose noisy engines drown out the delicate rumblings, and songs whales make to establish territory and communicate, as well as the myriad sounds other creatures emit in the ocean depths vital to their survival. The North Atlantic, Mediterranean and Baltic are especially busy shipping lanes. Wildlife now has new and lethal noises to cope with. The Navy has been testing anti-submarine sonar called Low Frequency Active. Powerful sonar waves are broadcast underwater to test a means of detecting quiet enemy submarines (White 2000a). These sonar waves can travel hundreds of miles and be extremely loud. Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) males emitting their complex, haunting songs to establish territory have become silent or moved away when these waves were broadcast. More ominously, testing in 1995 off the coast of Greece coincided with an unusual stranding of Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) resulting in the deaths of these seldom-seen whales. In March 2000, Ken Balcomb, a biologist from the Center for Whale Research who is familiar with sonar, was present when a stranding occurred while Navy tests were taking place nearby. Fifteen animals stranded, including dense beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) and other species of beaked whales, a Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) and a spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis).All washed up on the shores of a Bahamian island; when pushed back into deep water, they were unable to remain upright, clearly unbalanced and disoriented, and nine died (White 2000a). Along with Harvard biologist Darlene Ketton, Ken Balcomb performed necropsies on several whales, finding their ears full of blood and, in one case, hemorrhages striped the lungs; further testing discovered that a whale had suffered a concussion, apparently the result of acute trauma from pressure (White 2000a). A press conference organized by the Animal Welfare Institute following these findings featured Ken Balcomb and other whale experts, who attested to the fact that the sonar is reckless, unnecessary and lethal to whales. Soon after, the Navy canceled testing of active sonar off New Jersey, as well as its scheduled tests on sperm whales in the Azores (White 2000). This technology fills the ocean with penetrating sound waves that greatly disturb or kill marine mammals, interfering with their own sonar and natural behavior.

[Henry Wood]

Along those lines, I remember a story of a U-boot crew torpedoing a ship and then seeing something that had a large body and a snake-like neck with fins jump out of the water. It was the only reported sighting of the creature.

Were they in Loch Ness? :rotfl:

[Henry Wood]

I have never seen a dolphin in my GW game, will keep a eye out but
I wonder how many whales/dolphin were killed by depth charges during the war :hmm:

I recently read a book by an anti-submarine ship commander who said they sometimes dropped a depth charge at favourite fishing spots while patrolling around the British coasts and the crew had fried fish on the menu shortly afterwards. (I've been reading so many books lately that I do forget which one the story came from.)

[Henry Wood]

Now..that you mentioned it. Is there any recorded case of a U-Boot being damaged by a marine life form ?

No but IIRC a post war sub was damaged in a collision with a whale

Will try to find link when have a moment

OT 'When I were a lad' I remember reading an article in a boys' comic called 'The Eagle' and the story appeared under the heading of 'It couldn't happen but it did...' and explained how a fish slowed down a huge ocean liner. It told how a liner on passage from UK to Australia suddenly dropped speed by a rate of knots despite the engines working as normal. When she eventually berthed it was found a small whale of some sort had been impaled around the bow of the ship and the resulting drag (or whatever the correct techy term is) resulted in a great delay in the ship's passage.

[oche]

I want to see a dolphin too...tell me where to find them, i promise i won't shoot them :yep: .

[sergbuto]

The dolphins can be found near the milcows in Harbor traffic mod/GW. You will not be able to shoot them in any case since they do not have a damage model.

[Hartmann]

Along those lines, I remember a story of a U-boot crew torpedoing a ship and then seeing something that had a large body and a snake-like neck with fins jump out of the water. It was the only reported sighting of the creature.


perhaps a giant squid, the snake probably was a tentacle :yep:

http://www.unmuseum.org/squid.htm

"One night during World War II a British Admiralty trawler was lying off the Maldive Islands in the Indian Ocean. One of the crew, A. G. Starkey, was up on deck, alone, fishing, when he saw something in the water:
"As I gazed, fascinated, a circle of green light glowed in my area of illumination. This green unwinking orb I suddenly realized was an eye. The surface of the water undulated with some strange disturbance. Gradually I realized that I was gazing at almost point-black range at a huge squid." Starkey walked the length the of the ship finding the tail at one end and the tentacles at the other. The ship was over one hundred and seventy five feet long."


could be modelled it in sh3 ??? :rotfl: :rotfl:
http://alpha.fdu.edu/~boyer/GiantSquid.jpeg
http://www.unmuseum.org/alectron.jpg

[horrgakx]

I saw dolphins in the game - I'm using the GW mod and I got a message notifying me of a refuelling sub in the mid-atlantic. I docked with it (though I didn't actually see the sub at this point) and upon resuming the game I was next to the other sub, and dolphins swam past jumping out of the water. Cool :)