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Originally Posted by trenken
I see a ship a long way away, and I see that the speed is at medium. Yet this thing is not moving. It's like it's frozen. What's the deal?
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Yeah - weird - I ran into this the other night - I've been reading posts around here for months about people running across ships stopped out in mid-ocean, but I always assumed that they meant actually stopped at zero speed. I spotted a merchant at about 10km and closed on it to see if it was enemy and I could attack it. It turned out to be a lone German merchant, but the odd thing was that despite the fact that graphically it looked like it was going about 6-8 knots (from smoke and wake/bow wave), it was actually stuck/stopped dead, almost like it had run aground (though it was out in over 1,000m depths). Very odd.
I radioed in a contact report so maybe she could get a tow, and headed off to find some real targets.