Now i see why the medic is needed onboard
 

My eyes are better than those of my young watch officers :roll: That was a close call.I managed to avoid head-on collision only because i went to the deck as soon as i saw the horrible "we ve been spotted sir" message and steered hard to port.Did it scrap my paint?Yes!I heard a loooong metallic noise to my right,i thought i 'd sink,but at the end,no damage.Simply my lads back at Willhelmshaven will pass their free time repainting my boat :arrgh!:

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Good miss Captain.

I recommend [ or ] for hard to port or starboard. 35 degrees is what you can do by clicking, but you can get the rudder to 40 degrees with those two keys. Just a word of wisdom.

Thanks Captain!Nice thing to know for the future just in case their vision keeps worsening :up:

Drinking on watch again, eh? :P

I'm guessing you surfaced right next to the boat right? If you did then you just validated my practice of taking a look around in the observation periscope before I surface.

Nice reactions to save your boat! I guess that grog that they brew on these boats really can make you go blind! :|\

Oh yeah, if you where surfacing when this happened I'd have a talk with your Sonar operator as well. :roll:

I'm guessing he was running on the surface, since he said that he ran on deck as soon as he heard the watch call out...

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Right.Because,you know,i thought i had a watch crew on deck that would warn me about enemy ships.When i went on deck,i saw the merchant right in front of me,head on.I didn't take the screenshot because in my panic i was pressing the wrong keys.

Yeah...I m starting to think that they 've managed to make some eye-killer ale ,mixing bananas with alcohol from the engine room. :damn:

The recommendation for a) a hydrophone/sonar sweep and b) a pericope look-around prior to surface is good advice. Just ask the show-off nuke boat (disgraced/disciplined/dismissed) Captain surfacing off Pearl Harbor who surfaced thru the bottom of a tour boat full of Japanese tourists about four years ago. His equipment/crew should have registered its presence before the "crash surface (flank speed...blow everything including sanitaries)" manuver...but somehow they didn't. However when you raise your pericope and your first sighting thru the scope is the interior of the boiler room of a vessel running on the surface....well, everybody has a bad day on occasion

I feel I must specify, it was a school fishing vessel carrying students. Very horrible accident that was really easy to avoid.

Aye, the tourists were actually aboard the USS Greeneville... in the command room at the time...