GWX Dolphins? Whales?

VIICDriver · 12-19-06, 03:11 PM

LOL, I do not know what it was. Cruising due west along the northernmost edge of AF87 in my trusty type IIA early Sep. 1939. I perform a routine trim dive, cut the engines and stop by the hydrophone room.

I'm getting an unknown contact at about 010 and it sounds like nothing I have heard on a hydrophone before. A very high pitched high frequency whistling/whirring. If it was a prop I'd say it was turning about 18000 rpm!

Was able to plot it on the map and after tracking it (sonar man would track it even though it was 'unknown') I give it a course of 160 or so and doing speeds anywhere of 2-4 knots varying. I pull within 1000m of said contact and surface, jump to the bridge and start scanning...nothing at all there.

Start running more or less parallel to this anomaly and get myself within 100m of it. Cannot see anything on the surface, periscope depth and listen and this 'thing' is now screaming on the hydrophones and I can tell by its direction it is pretty much all around me now. Quick surface, nothing there. I tried to free view and look around but it was about 0300 and the water was very murky so could not see anything.

Gave up the hunt of it. Cant kill what I cannot see. If you guys have stuck dolphins and/or whale sounds in there hats off to you. I just encountered them! If not I have no idea in hell what it was but we are back on patrol and have heard nothing else of the anomaly since.

Chuck

AVGWarhawk · 12-19-06, 03:31 PM

Yes, you have been following a biological

There be dolphins.

U-104 · 12-19-06, 03:36 PM

:su nny:

mookiemookie · 12-19-06, 04:16 PM

Don't you dare torpedo Flipper!

AVGWarhawk · 12-19-06, 04:26 PM

That dolphin has a magnetic bomb that he is attaching to the pressure hull. Harpoon that bugger

VIICDriver · 12-19-06, 04:48 PM

That is friggin awesome.

Chuck

_Seth_ · 12-19-06, 04:49 PM

It isnt flipper. He's dead. Its Bernards very fat pet-dolphin "Flubber". Here seen after a local fish-eating contest:

12-19-06, 03:11 PM	#1
VIICDriver Engineer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 203 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	GWX Dolphins? Whales? LOL, I do not know what it was. Cruising due west along the northernmost edge of AF87 in my trusty type IIA early Sep. 1939. I perform a routine trim dive, cut the engines and stop by the hydrophone room. I'm getting an unknown contact at about 010 and it sounds like nothing I have heard on a hydrophone before. A very high pitched high frequency whistling/whirring. If it was a prop I'd say it was turning about 18000 rpm! Was able to plot it on the map and after tracking it (sonar man would track it even though it was 'unknown') I give it a course of 160 or so and doing speeds anywhere of 2-4 knots varying. I pull within 1000m of said contact and surface, jump to the bridge and start scanning...nothing at all there. Start running more or less parallel to this anomaly and get myself within 100m of it. Cannot see anything on the surface, periscope depth and listen and this 'thing' is now screaming on the hydrophones and I can tell by its direction it is pretty much all around me now. Quick surface, nothing there. I tried to free view and look around but it was about 0300 and the water was very murky so could not see anything. Gave up the hunt of it. Cant kill what I cannot see. If you guys have stuck dolphins and/or whale sounds in there hats off to you. I just encountered them! If not I have no idea in hell what it was but we are back on patrol and have heard nothing else of the anomaly since. Chuck

12-19-06, 03:31 PM	#2
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,256 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Yes, you have been following a biological There be dolphins. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-19-06, 03:36 PM	#3
U-104 Grey Wolf Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: United States Posts: 797 Downloads: 187 Uploads: 0	:su nny: __________________ My heart is steadfast, O God. I will sing and make music with all my soul. Ps. 108:1 Survival of the fittest does not explain arrival of the fittest. we live in a single spoken sentence.. "God said, let there be"

12-19-06, 04:16 PM	#4
mookiemookie Navy Seal Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 9,404 Downloads: 105 Uploads: 1	Don't you dare torpedo Flipper! __________________ They don’t think it be like it is, but it do. Want more U-boat Kaleun portraits for your SH3 Commander Profiles? Download the SH3 Commander Portrait Pack here.

12-19-06, 04:26 PM	#5
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,256 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	That dolphin has a magnetic bomb that he is attaching to the pressure hull. Harpoon that bugger __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

12-19-06, 04:48 PM	#6
VIICDriver Engineer Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Lynchburg, VA Posts: 203 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	That is friggin awesome. Chuck

12-19-06, 04:49 PM	#7
_Seth_ Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: In Tromsoe, @Tirpitz' final resting place.. Posts: 3,277 Downloads: 94 Uploads: 0	It isnt flipper. He's dead. Its Bernards very fat pet-dolphin "Flubber". Here seen after a local fish-eating contest: __________________

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