GWX Dolphins? Whales?
 

LOL, I do not know what it was. Cruising due west along the northernmost edge of AF87 in my trusty type IIA early Sep. 1939. I perform a routine trim dive, cut the engines and stop by the hydrophone room.

I'm getting an unknown contact at about 010 and it sounds like nothing I have heard on a hydrophone before. A very high pitched high frequency whistling/whirring. If it was a prop I'd say it was turning about 18000 rpm!

Was able to plot it on the map and after tracking it (sonar man would track it even though it was 'unknown') I give it a course of 160 or so and doing speeds anywhere of 2-4 knots varying. I pull within 1000m of said contact and surface, jump to the bridge and start scanning...nothing at all there.

Start running more or less parallel to this anomaly and get myself within 100m of it. Cannot see anything on the surface, periscope depth and listen and this 'thing' is now screaming on the hydrophones and I can tell by its direction it is pretty much all around me now. Quick surface, nothing there. I tried to free view and look around but it was about 0300 and the water was very murky so could not see anything.

Gave up the hunt of it. Cant kill what I cannot see. If you guys have stuck dolphins and/or whale sounds in there hats off to you. I just encountered them! If not I have no idea in hell what it was but we are back on patrol and have heard nothing else of the anomaly since.

Chuck

Yes, you have been following a biological;) There be dolphins.

:o:o:rock::rock::up::up::arrgh!::arrgh!::sunny::su nny:

Don't you dare torpedo Flipper! :huh:

That dolphin has a magnetic bomb that he is attaching to the pressure hull. Harpoon that bugger:arrgh!:

That is friggin awesome.

Chuck

It isnt flipper. He's dead. Its Bernards very fat pet-dolphin "Flubber". Here seen after a local fish-eating contest:
http://skepdic.com/graphics/dolphin.jpg

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Good one Seth!


Yes ther are dolphins in GWX, it's listed in the manual, but I don't think there is any renown in puting a torpedo into them!:lol:

IS NOT! IS NOT! IS NOT! How can you say that? Flipper is my hero!:oops:

Actually, like Lassie, Flipper will likely live forever.

Anyone caught shooting dolphins will be shot at dawn.

By order of the Kpt. :stare:

Dammit, tuna does not taste the same if the big chunks of dolphin are missing!:rotfl:

...Isnt he????... Then what was it i ate yesterday on the..... Wait..Where is my dog...?:damn::rotfl::rotfl:

If it tasted like tuna, then it was Flipper. But if it tasted like chicken, I'm afraid that you need a new dog.:p

:rotfl::rotfl:Poor little "Fluffy"... :rotfl::rotfl:

Would be cool to have the Whale Factory chasing the whales.....just to be torpedoed by by the first greenpeace activist in history.....some german U-boat-commander :D

Would be a better tactic against those whalers than THIS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fHq1...elated&search=

"BEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRNNNNNHAAAAAAAAAAAHHHRRRRDDDD!!!! "