Strange Underwater Noises At The SW Tip Of England...

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

... just before the western entrance to The Channel.

i had completed my patrol and was heading home... and with a strong sense that the gods would not abandon me, having watched over me so far to this point in the current career, i decided to transit The English Channel, then up towards our base at Bergen...

it was right after we completed out turn to the east, and as we started our submerged run for the western entrance to the channel that my sound man picked up these strange sounds on his passive receivers...

it sounded like a large hammer pounding on the hull of some sunken vessel... followed by a loud and long scraping sound...

immediately i ordered the snorkel lowered, and ran up the observation scope to do a quick scan of the surface... nothing sighted i decided to play it safe... i took the boat down to 50 meters, and gave the order for silent operation...

i then returned to the sound room where the operator was still picking up these weird undersea noises... could it be some new Allied secret weapon being tested... i set a course to the bearing of the sound and continued toward the source for further investigation...

as we tracked inbound the sounds kept getting louder... as if we were closing in on some unknown undersea force... i could sense that the crew did not like this one bit... i even overheard a mention of untersea monsters... were we entering a graveyard of sunken ships... ghosts of sunken ships drawing us closer so that they could exact their vengence on us the still living...

i immediately order battle stations, armed our remaining torpedoes... at least it would make the crew fell better... at the very least it would keep them occupied, their minds on the job at hand instead of the ghost outside the hull...

my sound man looked up at me with a perplexed look... 'shut up Henry, i said, even though he had not uttered a word... i knew what he was thinking... our torpedoes would be of no use against the spectres of the deep...

we contnuned inbound for another two hours... anxiously hunting the source of the unusual soundings, when sudden the navigator shouted that we were entering shallow waters...

i brought the sub up to periscope depth again, and did a check of the surface... still nothing...

i went back to the sound room, only to find that my sound man had lost the sound, and could no longer pick it up...

not wanting to push my luck any farther i broke off the search and ordered a course east... towards a more real and equally frightening unseen enemy...

--Mike

[oRGy]

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

no, seriously... i kid you not... i really picked up these weird sounds on my sounding gear at the SW tip of the British Isles, just prior to entering The Channel...

at first i thought it might be a sound glitch... my sound card acting up... then i thought, maybe it's an easter egg introduced by the dev team, or a mod maker...

but noone had mentioned anything before... and i only have the crew faces mod on the gui...

so the only thing left are Ghosts from The Flying Dutchman... right...

had one of our boats accidentaly sunk her... again!!!




--Mike

[U-73]

Did you go to external cam and do a search of the area the noise came from? Might be an easter egg the dev's came up with.

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

no... i couldn't... the level i'm playing at doesn't allow external cam...

it was kinda strange... reminded me of the movie The Abyss

--Mike

[Seeteufel]

Most probably just a sunken ship (one of those nobody-knows-why accidents..) making noise. Since you didn't mention the use of the free camera, I guess you didn't look around underwater ? (Edit: Well, okay - question already answered...)

BTW...what does a guy named Henry do on a german ww II submarine ?

[TDK1044]

Could you have entered a mine field? It sounds like you were hearing the noise of mine cables brushing against the side of your sub.

[jumpy]

Perhaps it was the mysterious NP1 (from 'A Twist of Sand') bound for it's secret Skeleton Coast berth....

[Farside]

i'm gonna go with the 'sunken ship' idea, but i could also believe the mine wire scraping (does this actually happen ingame?)

[Zie Chuckinator]

im gonna say take a break from playing and go eat something and/or take a nap

[scrapser]

I have heard this sound too and believe I was in the same location. I had just finished transiting the channel on my way to patrol BF19 in my XXI when I came upon this weird sound. When I got close enough, the contact appears as "unknown." Getting closer doesn't change this like it does for merchants and warships. I believe it's a sunken ship as well but it is an eerie sound to hear.

scrapser

[Ula Jolly]

What grid, what date, what time?

[TDK1044]

In answer to Farside, Yes, I have found my sub rubbing against mine wires on two occassions. It makes a very eerie grinding sound similar to a boat breaking up.

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

scrapser Posted: 16 Aug 2005 16:16 Post subject:

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I have heard this sound too and believe I was in the same location. I had just finished transiting the channel on my way to patrol BF19 in my XXI when I came upon this weird sound.

THANKS SCRAPSER!!!!!

see... i'm not loosing all my faculties... not just yet :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
i knew there was really something there...

yeah Jolly... i should've gotten a good position fix... i'll head out that way again on my next patrol... see if i can still find it...


now... about that Bigfoot sighting i had a few weeks ago while sailing near the coast of the American Pacific Northwest

--Mike

[slow_n_ez]

Originally Posted by Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense

now... about that Bigfoot sighting i had a few weeks ago while sailing near the coast of the American Pacific Northwest

--Mike

naww..... that was just me fishing for surf perch off the jetty