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Yes, I messed up. Patrol off of Guam's western side, found a base there, tried a sneak-in at PD and found out that there's a few rocks a tad too high there. Minor damage, but still workable.

Did manage to sink a ship at the dock, and that patrol craft never found me.

Turned north to get back into deep waters (still at PD) and found that someone put a large ROCK right in my way. Damn those rocks.

"Yes, sir, the operation was a complete success, but unfortunately, the doctor died." :rotfl:

Thats weird, the rocks are... uh... cosmetic.

You sure you dident hit something a little more destructive such as a mine or subnet or run aground?

Anyhow good luck on your next carrer.

I had the outside camera off, but you're probably correct - might have run aground, scrapping the bottom. That'll do the damage, you bet.

Apparently not all the rocks are cosmetic. I hit one in a side channel off the Pearl Harbor entrance and I was surfaced. Went to external camera and followed my wake back and the only thing there was a boulder just below the surface, and no shallow spot to run aground. Of course if I wasn't so nosy I wouldn't have been in that channel. :lol:

Peabody

Those rocks sure can be pesky. I got a program on my desktop that helps me get my rocks off.:D

Well, that might have been what did me in then, still not certain. Just goes to show that submerging in shallow waters isn't always the best thing one can do.

Guess I'll know better for the next time.

"Experience is a great teacher. Too bad that she kills off all of her students."

Heres a question for you...

How did you order the 'dive' ? Press 'D'? Order Crash dive?

Either of those will slam you into the bottom seems the sailors follow orders to a fault... good little sailors :p

In shallow waters I will order periscope depth 'P' and once under check the water beneath the keel and set depth manually by clicking on the depth gauge.

Yeah it was P in deep waters, then crawled in at PD to get in close (took several 'game' hours to get there at 1/3). Never checked the depth under keel, and that's what caught me.

Odd thing was that the really shallow area that killed me wasn't near the shore - it was a mile or so offshore. Must have been a coral ridge or something like that. Argh!

heh... kind of embarrising but I have run into islands out in the middle of nowhere while running surfaced at high TC.

Really should check my plotting a little more carefully :rotfl:

On my second patrol i went back to Austraila to refit and noticed the friendly carrier near port and thought....ooo better stay away from that. Plotted a course north all the way to formossa, engines set flank ahead, return to course clicked and then whacked up the time compression.......

BANG i went straight into the side of the nearby friendly cruiser i hadn't spotted, time for a reload.

LOL dont feel bad, I was pulling into pearl last night at the same time as a friendly task force.

It wasent pretty. The TF lost a crusier from running into one another and an aircraft flew into a mountain :doh:

Anyhow welcome to the forums !

Oops, did that from Hawaii to Midway. If you're not looking very hard, that straight line from one to the other may plow right into that tiny little island about 1/4 of the way to Midway. You don't see it if you're zoomed out too far. Yes, I found it at full speed and dug my way right up into the beach. Sound guy didn't appreciate my busting up his hydrophones, either. He just gave me a dirty look - I think he had the volume turned up full at the time. :oops:

Hrm... when I did it I got stuck for good! All back astern wouldent even budge it.

I considered waiting for the tide to come in when I realized uhhh there are none in the game :rotfl:

But if it makes you feel better this type of thing actually did happen in real life Ill try to find some linkage and edit it in.

Heres one http://www.aimm.museum/SS-394/ss-394.htm

Here is a list... several of these are listed as "Run Aground" http://users.cvalley.net/hehall/Lost%20subs.html

Thanks for that link, especially the second one.
Very important piece of history there.

I once scraped all the way down the side of the Truk subnet until I found a way out!