Bermuda Triangle moved?

KeybdFlyer · 07-19-09, 01:34 PM

It was patrol #7, June 1940, heading down to CG85 when I got a contact at long range off to starboard in BE6626. After surfacing and heading on a rough intercept course, I eventually saw that it was a British Large Merchant all alone on a heading of 045° at about 7kts. As it was still some distance away I increased TC slightly (8x I think) to alleviate the waiting and corrected the intercept course. Just for a second I glanced away from the screen (needed my coffee, it'd been a long night), it couldn't have been more than 2-3 seconds... the ship vanished! One second clearly in view through the UZO, next second - gone! I stared in disbelief at the screen, no mistake, it was not there. So, after I'd stopped swearing, I headed back on course to CG85, increased TC to 64x and put it down to misfortune - it must've been the end of the scripted track and I'd caught the vanishing-act and lost ±10,000 tons. "Schiff Gesichtet" came the cry and I was jolted back to x1 TC. There was my Large Merchant, bang at the position it had vanished at and back on its original course/speed and all set to be sent to the bottom. Anybody experienced this strange happening at all? Or have I come across a mini Bermuda Triangle to the NW of Spain?

07-19-09, 01:34 PM	#1
KeybdFlyer 中国水兵 Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 272 Downloads: 162 Uploads: 0	Bermuda Triangle moved? It was patrol #7, June 1940, heading down to CG85 when I got a contact at long range off to starboard in BE6626. After surfacing and heading on a rough intercept course, I eventually saw that it was a British Large Merchant all alone on a heading of 045° at about 7kts. As it was still some distance away I increased TC slightly (8x I think) to alleviate the waiting and corrected the intercept course. Just for a second I glanced away from the screen (needed my coffee, it'd been a long night), it couldn't have been more than 2-3 seconds... the ship vanished! One second clearly in view through the UZO, next second - gone! I stared in disbelief at the screen, no mistake, it was not there. So, after I'd stopped swearing, I headed back on course to CG85, increased TC to 64x and put it down to misfortune - it must've been the end of the scripted track and I'd caught the vanishing-act and lost ±10,000 tons. "Schiff Gesichtet" came the cry and I was jolted back to x1 TC. There was my Large Merchant, bang at the position it had vanished at and back on its original course/speed and all set to be sent to the bottom. Anybody experienced this strange happening at all? Or have I come across a mini Bermuda Triangle to the NW of Spain?