Ah, thought of another one. Not really 'ridiculous', necessarily, but it was extremely annoying at the time. After the Pearl Harbor fiasco, I decided to run my next cruise out of Manila, no sunken hulks for my idiotic crew to drive into. Got my shiny new S-class (okay, not shiny, or new...it was a rusted hulk) and started out of the harbor. As I was clearing land-mass and about to turn north to my assigned area, my WO calls out that he's sighted an aircraft. Cool, probably allied this close to Manila, let's take a look and see what it is.
Went up on deck to wait for a visual..looking around- Oh, look at that, a Catalina! Cool.... wait, Catalina's don't have 4 engines...oh hell. Bombs, dead, sunk.
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The only sound that still scares me to this day...
The silence when the pinging stops. 
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