intense recordings of the I-52 sinking

02-07-07, 10:58 PM

Although the main site (http://www.hnsa.org/sound/#sealion) has been mentioned before in several different posts, here are two sound files that simply must be heard.

http://www.hnsa.org/sound/sonobuoy2/record19.ram

http://www.hnsa.org/sound/sonobuoy2/record20.ram

In both, you hear the audio recordings from sonobouys dropped during the hunt (and kill) of the Japanese sub I-52 in the Atlantic. In the first, you can clearly hear the swishing sounds of the submerged and running submarine . . .

and also the explosion of the acoustic torpedo that mortally wounded it. You also can clearly hear the loud seething hiss of escaping air.

In the second one, you hear the hull being crushed, its bulkheads collapsing, as it sinks to its death and is crushed.

Having been playing SHIII now for many months, and being on the 'inside' as it were, it's a profound and poignant thing to listen to, as my imagination all too clearly can picture what it must have been like for them, fighting to survive, yet ultimately failing.

02-07-07, 10:58 PM	#1
Albrecht Von Hesse Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	intense recordings of the I-52 sinking Although the main site (http://www.hnsa.org/sound/#sealion) has been mentioned before in several different posts, here are two sound files that simply must be heard. http://www.hnsa.org/sound/sonobuoy2/record19.ram http://www.hnsa.org/sound/sonobuoy2/record20.ram In both, you hear the audio recordings from sonobouys dropped during the hunt (and kill) of the Japanese sub I-52 in the Atlantic. In the first, you can clearly hear the swishing sounds of the submerged and running submarine . . . and also the explosion of the acoustic torpedo that mortally wounded it. You also can clearly hear the loud seething hiss of escaping air. In the second one, you hear the hull being crushed, its bulkheads collapsing, as it sinks to its death and is crushed. Having been playing SHIII now for many months, and being on the 'inside' as it were, it's a profound and poignant thing to listen to, as my imagination all too clearly can picture what it must have been like for them, fighting to survive, yet ultimately failing.