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Originally Posted by Dr.Sid
Great idea this thread.
I hope Neal won't think this can run his Almanac business, because now I want it even more ! :hmm:
Uncharted oil rig you say ? Good idea for mission design  |
That Almanac is great. I am still chuckling over the story of the fellow who got into a lot of trouble and the COB placed him on lookout watch pierside in port while there a lot of fog. he falls asleep on the fwd capstain while it rotated slowly and thought the sail of his boat was another ship in the fog, so he calls out a collision imminent. I have always heard that submariners had to be in the top one or two percent in the intelligance category to go to Sub School. It sure does not explain me, that is for sure. But it makes for good stories I guess. I am definitely looking forward to the next Almanac. Bill's story reminds me of a Junior officer we had on the A-Fish. This guy was OOD, when we were surfaced and on two seperste occaisions he reprted a visual contact in the GIUK. Sonar could not confirm it, neither did the lookouts. So the CO ordered the radar mast to be raised and....nothing! Then on another occaision this poor fellow almost surfaced us with a fishing boat right above us. I never heard our CO use foul language before until that day. The fellow was no longer a submariner after we returned home. We called him "Casper" because of the "Ghost ships", he saw. I fought long and hard to remain a helmsman/planesman because it was tooo fun! But then I had to qualify as O2 genny operator which was dull as watching the paint dry. But those days, I would not trade for a million bucks. I guess that is why i am here, kinda of reliving some of it and enjoying the comraderie once more
