SH3 related Dream / nightmare?

[GoldenRivet]

Oddly enough i have not played sh3 in a few weeks, however i did watch a documentary about lost subs in the pacific.

Had the strangest dream that i was in command of a VIIC.

we attacked a convoy but were detected... went to about 180 meters during depth charge attack.

did well with evasion for a while.

something catastrophic happened in the bow... a column of water simply sprayed into the forward torpedo room filling it literally in a matter of about 3 seconds, flooding in the bow quarters immediately resulted as crewmen ran aft but were unable to outrun the vast wall of sea water as it overtook them.

a fast thinking crewman slammed the command room hatch and sealed it shut...fast thinking, but it only delayed our end.

as the boat took a severe down angle of about 45 degrees all available hands mustered in the control room as we blew out all ballast in vain and ordered full reverse to slow the dive.

The electric engines, running only on aft batteries strained against the descent.

I produced a pistol from a lock box in the command room with the thought of passing it around to those who hoped for a less dreadful end.

The sound of the hull creaking and popping and the dreadful sounds of sea pressure against the forward hatch were terrific. water began to shower gently into the command room from around the hatch with greater strength

the needle on the depth gauge was well pegged on 250m by now as the boats power failed and plunged everything into darkness.

the groaning and creaking of metal grew louder and more frequent, punctuated by bangs and pops of various panels bursting around the outer hull.

the last thing i remember was a voice penetrating the darkness which said "you'll have to do the shooting sir... the man who falls dead by his own hand will likely drop the pistol, and we will never find it in this dark."

words escaped me.

I woke up.



i have had a hand full of U-Boat dreams since installing SH3 years ago.

some funny, some serious, some down right weird.

but never one so terrifying.

so... have you guys had any SH3 related dreams???

[sharkbit]

What a chilling dream!!!!

I can't say I've had a submarine dream, at least that I can remember.

When I read about submarines going down on their final dive, I've always wondered what it was like.
Was there calm? panic? are they so busy trying to save the boat that they don't have time to think before the hull gives way?

Probably a combination.
We will never know though and it is pretty unimagineable.

the last thing i remember was a voice penetrating the darkness which said "you'll have to do the shooting sir... the man who falls dead by his own hand will likely drop the pistol, and we will never find it in this dark."

That kinda struck me as funny in a dark humor kind of way.

[BulSoldier]

Before falling asleep I often think of what im gonna do in the next patrol or what i am going to do with the current patrol, but never (or atleast i cant recall) had a dream about subs.

[grislyatoms]

Maybe I'll start keeping a couple of scuttling charges in a lock box in the command room...

Sheesh, all those faces looking at ya as the depth increases.

I have always wondered, at the last moment when the pressure hull can take no more does it crush all at once, instantaneously, all compartments at once?

[BulSoldier]

i belive it is like a beer can , it crushes imidiatly, since after the smallest breach , it increases exponentioly(spl?) and it all ends in mere moments.

[grislyatoms]

Originally Posted by BulSoldier

i belive it is like a beer can , it crushes imidiatly, since after the smallest breach , it increases exponentioly(spl?) and it all ends in mere moments.

That's what I had always imagined, but was never sure if that was a "Hollywood" image or fact.

[Task Force]

Sure I might have had afiew. (cause I dont remember my dreams...)

Thats a sign you have played too much SH3.

[GoldenRivet]

if the boat is fully flooded with sea water before it reaches its crush depth... it wont crush, it will just crash into the sea floor.

[GoldenRivet]

computer animation of the USS Scorpion





they speculate this is the sequence of events based upon the condition of the wreckage.

pay special attention to the way the sub crushes between :33 and :43

WOW

[Pisces]

Wow! Dreams are often vivid in memory because your subcontious is trying to tell you something, that your concious mind hasn't noticed. But it may be totally unrelated to your subsim experiences, as the setting of the dream is often just a cover to limit the real meaning provoking strong emotions. That voice you heard sounded like it had a serious message, pretty existential. I would pay attention and see if there are dots to be connected in my personal life.

[sharkbit]

I would think that with a sudden inrush of water from a breach of some sort, the temperature of the air would skyrocket when the air compresses and has nowhere to go.

pay special attention to the way the sub crushes between :33 and :43

Incredible!

What was the initial explosion at the beginning that caused the flooding?

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by sharkbit

What was the initial explosion at the beginning that caused the flooding?

the theory that i most agree with is as follows.

A mark 46 torpedo was loaded into a forward tube, the mark 46 was powered by a silver-zinc battery which had a known tendency to overheat.

the theory is that the silver zinc battery overheated and caught fire. this caused a low order detonation of the mark 46 torpedoes warhead.

the low order detonation - while not necessarily enough to destroy the ship, was powerful enough to blast open both the inner and outer doors of the torpedo tube.

this catastrophe caused the torpedo compartment to flood quickly.

measures would have been taken to emergency surface the boat, but by now it was too late.

there are a few other theories - but this is the most convincing and probable.

[Shadowblade]

really spooking dream

I dont remember any uboat dreams so far, so I can't tell such impressive story.

[BulSoldier]

Thats because there arent that many ppl who played sh3 and then took a brake for days, let alone weeks

[Jimbuna]

That video doesn't even begin to show what a terrible last few moments those on board must have experienced.