Chilean sub pop's the hatch in Acapulco Mexico
 

Is it just me, or does that picture look a bit... fake?

It looks fake to me. Would a sub commander take his sub that close to shore? I don't think so. Then again, there may be some nice looking women on the beach that the binoculars don't do justice to!:hmm:

the pic does look fake. But on the other hand the Chilean Navy are a crazy bunch of life-loving maniacs.

it seems like somebody spent some time in photoshop.

Looking at google earth, it seems the port of Acapulco is in a river estuary, so that by going there, you surely would pass quite close to a beach.

Same situation as going into Rostock. You passed Warnemünde Beach on one side with only around 50-100 meters distance to the beach.
Of course all hands and all binoculars were watching to starboard while approaching the Warnow estuary and navy ships develop a noticable list to starboard going in and port going out.
I wonder what resolutions the new electro-optical scanning systems can archieve at that distances.

:ping::rotfl:

On the other hand, Acapulco, isnt exactly on a straight course for San Diego anyway, being almost in Baja California, so the visit might have been exactly for that purpose.

actually it ain't fake. On the mexican news there was a report on it with video n' all.

heres the report from a mexican news paper
http://www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=319937

thats what happens when you drink and sail a sub.

Well if the mexican news report it, its gotta be true:yep:

i remember sitting off the british virgin isles in 95 on HMS valiant but not closer than a couple of miles ,some very nice yachts came out to see us with topless females made our little trip a dream ;)

:roll: ......................:lol: :up:

Far too close to shore for my liking :hmm: