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Originally Posted by frau kaleun (Post 1532531)

Goin 2 Hawaii, BRB.

LOL :DL

He's a submarine wannabe. Now he can see you...and use his guns on you.

On a similar note:
http://i874.photobucket.com/albums/a...tReturning.jpg

It really is amusing what the AI will do to avoid hitting you.

AHEM! Neither of you can blame Bernard for this. Red is LEFT, green is right.

Please report to BdU immediately.

http://www.lakeharding.com/images/cl...p_image008.gif
Not when returning to port from the ocean...

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1536278)

AHEM! Neither of you can blame Bernard for this. Red is LEFT, green is right.

Please report to BdU immediately.

Yeah, you gotta be able to go the other way eventually. :O::D

I can't find any solid references ATM, but the "Red Right Returning" is US and its territories only - the rest of the world is reversed (of course!). And the Red part is fairly new - it used to be black and green bouys, but they were too hard to distinguish, so the black was changed to red in the '70's - I think. It took a while for the changeover to be completed. They also went to 'can" and "nun" types as well.

However this is all moot - in the war era this was not only the wrong scheme, invariably one of the first wartime acts of any belligerant was to remove all such aids to navigation so as to deny their use to the enemy.

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Originally Posted by Draka

I can't find any solid references ATM, but the "Red Right Returning" is US and its territories only - the rest of the world is reversed (of course!).

...another thing we Americans can't get right apparently, that and the metric system. (I hate the standard system!)

But yeah, I guess it would be a smart move to remove all the navigation buoys.

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Originally Posted by Missing Name (Post 1536657)

http://www.lakeharding.com/images/cl...p_image008.gif
Not when returning to port from the ocean...

On the one hand I was referring to the navigations lights on the ship itself, so that's my mistake. On the other hand in Gargamel's picture the ship is to the right of the red bouy, and he's aground, which means he's obviously wrong, so :O:.

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Originally Posted by Missing Name (Post 1536657)

http://www.lakeharding.com/images/cl...p_image008.gif
Not when returning to port from the ocean...

There is an easy way to remember. When you sail inland, or against the current;
"A seamen leaves sea with a bleeding hart"
Since the hart is at your left... when red is left, your going inland. When green is left, your heading to sea :)

PS, i just came back to the SH3 part since a long time. This because i just decided i will abondon SH5 and get back to SH3 with GWX-G.

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Originally Posted by Missing Name (Post 1536657)

http://www.lakeharding.com/images/cl...p_image008.gif

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Originally Posted by Matador.es (Post 1537109)

Does that mean the picture is wrong? The vessel is heading inland but has the green buoy on the left/port/red side. :hmmm:

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Does that mean the picture is wrong? The vessel is heading inland but has the green buoy on the left/port/red side. :hmmm:

The picture is American navigation procedure. The buoys are placed so that ships leaving the harbor have correctly aligned lights.

So in other words, yes, it's wrong.

I've been reading Hitler's U-Boat war, by Clay Blair.

Today I read about U-570;

It was rushed through Agru Font in Norway where the boat bottomed and incurred some damage....
“After a rousing farewell party in Trondheim, where much beer and wine had been consumed, U-570 sailed at 0800 hours on August 24. She was not shipshape: The diesels were not properly tuned, the air compressor was on the blink, some batteries were not properly strapped down, the four spare torpedoes in the bow compartment were not securely stowed, one bow torpedo tube leaked. The hydrophones, knocked out when the boat bottomed, had not been repaired because no one in Norway knew how.
When the boat reached open sea, a large proportion of the crew became desperately seasick. The retching and revolting odours inside the confined pressure hull touched off an epidemic of seasickness..... Some of the improperly stowed torpedoes worked loose and rammed against the torpedo-tube inner doors”
The chaotic patrol was ended 3 days later when they surrendered unnecessarily to a Coastal Command Hudson, who was only armed with machine guns!

The reason this story appealed to me?
The First Watch Officer's name was ..... Bernhard Berndt, crew of 1935.
:har::har::har:

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Originally Posted by WikipediaO, U-570 spent much of the morning submerged. She had been four days at sea and this was to give respite to a crew that was suffering acutely from seasickness (several had been incapacitated). She surfaced at position 62°15′N 18°35′W at around 10:50 am, and was immediately detected by the radar of a nearby RAF Lockheed Hudson bomber of 269 Squadron operating from Kaldaðarnes, Iceland.[6

Rahmlow, who had climbed out onto the bridge, heard the approaching Hudson's engines and ordered a crash-dive. But the aircraft reached the submarine before she fully submerged and dropped four 250-pound (110 kg) depth charges—one detonated just 10 yards (10 m) from the boat.[7]
The U-boat quickly resurfaced and around ten of the crew emerged. The Hudson opened fire on them with machine guns, but ceased when the U-boat crew displayed a white sheet. An account of what happened was subsequently given to British naval intelligence interrogators by the captured crew members—the depth charge explosions had almost rolled the boat over, knocked out all electrical power, smashed instruments, caused water leaks and contaminated the air on the boat. The inexperienced crew believed the contamination to be chlorine, caused by acid from leaking battery cells mixing with sea-water, and the engine-compartment crew panicked and fled forward to escape the gas. Restoring electrical power—for the underwater electric motors and for lighting—would have been straightforward, yet there was nobody remaining in the engine compartment to do this.[8] The submarine was dead in the water and in darkness. Rahmlow believed the chlorine would make it fatal to stay submerged so he resurfaced. The sea was too rough for the crew to man their anti-aircraft gun so they displayed a white flag to forestall another, probably fatal, depth charge attack from the Hudson—they were unaware the aircraft had dropped all its depth-charges.
Most of the crew remained on the deck of the submarine as the Hudson circled above them. A radio request for help saw it being joined by another Hudson and a PBY Catalina flying boat of 209 Squadron, with a full load of depth-charges.[8] The German crew radioed their situation to the German naval high-command, destroyed their radio, smashed their Enigma machine and dumped its parts overboard along with the boat's secret papers

Lol, surrendered to an Airplain, with no ammo at all :)

Never heard this story.

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Originally Posted by Matador.es (Post 1537518)

Lol, surrendered to an Airplain, with no ammo at all :)

Never heard this story.

You should watch the movie of the same title 'U-570'...your missing a treat :DL

The first half sunk 30 minutes ago.:haha::haha::haha::haha::haha:

http://yfrog.com/f/dyhalfcargoj/

http://yfrog.com/f/dyhalfcargoj/

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