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Originally Posted by mike_espo
Had the same problem on my last patrol. Very difficult to see ships due to monitor reflections....had to ask WO for range, and bearings until I could see target myself.
Sometimes, however, watch is blind as a bat!! I played a homemade scenario once on a IXC, had a steamer bearing down on me..could not have been more than 1km away on a clear moonlit night...   watch did not see him...only by my lucky coincidence I happened to be on the bridge at the time and out of TC called full left rudder to avoid a collision....finally the watch calls out:" Shift geshikted".... :hmm: |
Same thing happend to me, usually the watch spots them before i can so i was counting on them to relocate a ship we'd just hit with a single torpedo, in a storm at night. Was getting really frustrated I just knew it was near, but they couldn't find it. Went out on the bridge myself swung my binoculars around and saw some really funny looking shades of dark gray. i blinked, lowered the binoculars and there she was a T2 , I;d only been able to see aone small portion of her hull with the binoculars because she was so close. i ask my WO again...no visual contact Sir.
so i smacked him upsid3e the head and told him to turn around she's 200 meters off our starboard!
Oh well, the trials of breaking in a new crew i guess.
