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