I'm not kidding, I once said to myself that if I ever have $2,000,000 I'll buy the Requin (or another Gato/Balao/Tench) and have it restored to 1945 condition (before Fleet Snorkel upgrade) and get it seaworthy, then hire a crew of subsimmers to man the stations. I know how to navigate with map and compass. I'll use the PT Boat pleasure cruisers as loopholes for moving a decommissioned naval vessel under its own power, which is currently illegal.

Party at 300ft below!

Woo! 444 posts!

When you're taking a soak in the tub and something on the ceiling catches your eye and you shout "Aircraft spotted! Aircraft spotted bearing 304 at short range!"

Actually did that.

When you wake up the entire house by screaming "EMERGENCY DIVE! GIVE ME 25 DEGREES DOWN ON THE BOW & STERN PLANES! SET DEPTH OF 3 5 0 AT 1KT! RIG FOR SILENT RUNNING!"

Actually did that.

When you've added "subsimmer" and "subsim" to your Chrome dictionary

Did that, too

Here's an idea i had many ears ago when I played SH2 and DC online.

Buy some old subs and DC. Invite those who want to and play BASH for real.

Markus

When Jim, talking and posting interesting aircraft to Diecast Collection, :DL

When you haven't been on here for 4 days, you come back, see dozens of new threads, comments & events, and think you are an outsider from an ancient world that doesn't exist anymore.

Nice one.

i got hooked on the general idea of submarines when i was 4. almost everyday i kept re-watching the titanic. Just to see it sink :DL. I loved seeing it go under, and snap in half. not the people. just the ship. thats all i watched it for. so really i was getting a daily dose of the art of sinking commercial vessels. My fate happened to lead me here. Now i spend chunks of my day, sitting down and glaring through a periscope at a juicy, ripe tanker, lining at my shot, and giving it the 2-KO punch, all to have me rage as they cleanly miss, and i surface and unload my deck gun.

ahhhh. Good times.

im actually a little skeptical of traveling on a cruise. Im always afraid of staring off the port bow and seeing a party ferret with a wicked grin on his face :dead:

I hate big cruise ships in general. They freak me out.

Sinking them, on the other hand, is something I can do.

IMO a ship that big should be either transporting large cargo, oil, or something else inanimate. Or be armed to the teeth with planes, guns, ASW, helicopters, ect.

If I wanted to go to water parks and visit Pacific islands, I'd drive 30 minutes to Holiday World, spend a day, then hop on a plane. It'd be cheaper, too, and not so many annoying kids.

I'd much rather be 100 some feet below the surface where all the surface threats and harsh weather conditions don't affect me.

Or August's. :D

What was the cruise ship that was dead in the water/powerless not that long ago? All because of a diesel engine oil casualty? Yeah, those things are well made.

Between engine failures, fires, and disease spread aboard those things, I'd much rather sink 'em via a subsim that ride on in the real world.

When you drive a Ford Mustang (like I do) and think "general topics" instead of "Gran Tourismo" when someone says "Mustang GT"

I went swimming today in the lake and I see two boats full of Japaneese tourists and I slipped bellow the surface only my eyes were above the water (along with my ever barer forehead), did calculations, lost my composire and yelled TORPEDO LOS !!!! so half the people in the lake including all the boat passengers looked what was my problem. So much for silent running

In that situation I think I would've gone with:

http://wavcentral.com/sounds/movies/godzilla/roar.mp3


http://download.lavadomefive.com/mem...aterRoar04.jpg

My first idea was I'd swimm close to the boat really not obvius, then grabbed the boat, pulle dmyself up and yelled GODZILLA. But then I'd get my head clobbered with an oar

Answer C; all of the above.

This pretty much says it all:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg26/...jpg&res=medium

Playing SH4 at the subsim clubhouse.

'll add this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKlss30BW3M

Interesting photo....who's the ugly bastid on the laptop? :hmmm:

Ol' fat McBee, me thinks.

If you could see the laptop image better, you'd see the SH4 control room.:yeah:

...when you went out looking for Steed. (when he was missing):D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuze08VL1BU

Who would have thought :hmmm:

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/9501/liarrv1ed9.gif

So, you get one chance to be on a real live submarine, and you spend the time playing a game? I hate to think about what you do when you're on 'your' PT boat. :O: