Strange encounter last night with a British Destroyer

[Red Heat]

I only can tell what happen with me it was in the afternoon, and the weather was heavy with strong wind, rain and fog...my visibility is very poor and i only able to see a little forward of my bow.

Then i recebe the msg " ship at short range" and i "fly" to the bridge to see what it was...and it was a DD in my right side turning away of my position, slowly sailing away...my reaction was PD and silent running.

The DD didnt detect my presence and no shots was fire, i keep my boat in PD about 10 minutes and then i sail away in the oposite direction and i execute a normal dive, all aways i silent running untill i lost contact with the DD. This it was the first, the only, and the last time wich this strange situation happened with me of long years of silent hunter. Nothing more i have to said...

Originally Posted by Red Heat

I only can tell what happen with me it was in the afternoon, and the weather was heavy with strong wind, rain and fog...my visibility is very poor and i only able to see a little forward of my bow.

Then i recebe the msg " ship at short range" and i "fly" to the bridge to see what it was...and it was a DD in my right side turning away of my position, slowly sailing away...my reaction was PD and silent running.

The DD didnt detect my presence and no shots was fire, i keep my boat in PD about 10 minutes and then i sail away in the oposite direction and i execute a normal dive, all aways i silent running untill i lost contact with the DD. This it was the first, the only, and the last time wich this strange situation happened with me of long years of silent hunter. Nothing more i have to said...

Another thing is the silly weather system in SH3 itself. Logically if there is strong wind, you should not see any thick fog around. More common situations where the fog could be is the cloudy calm day/night and with or without rain. So if you're not too cautious enough you could be easily detected by destroyer sonar guy even at close range.

P.S. It is weird that there is never a rain without a fog in SH3

[Pohl]

I got something like that except it was a task force with a BB, I knew it was one because I herd it's engines in the hydrophones, next thing I do is TCx8 and check hydrophones constantly until I notice.......im in the middle of the convoy so I spend at least 1 hours hunting the BB in the heavy fog when I suddenly see the inmense size of the ship right before me, no more than 200 meters bearing to 350, luckily enough he didn't saw me, otherwise 1 shot from his main cannons and I would have been history, after another 30 minutes I sunk it and managed to escape from the escorts

[theluckyone17]

Originally Posted by Contact

P.S. It is weird that there is never a rain without a fog in SH3

I usually think of fog as hampered visibility... not so much as realistic fog.

[Brag]

One dark and stormy night, far away from shore, I was in my bunk while cruising away. Banging and screeching woke me up.

By the time I got to the bridge I could see the stern of a destroyer vanish in the murk.

It is still e remarakable memory.

Originally Posted by theluckyone17

I usually think of fog as hampered visibility... not so much as realistic fog.

I do the same since there is no right weather effect included.. But thinking of reality rain alone should also be available..

[JHuschke]

I've encountered 2 enemy DD's at such a distance, but I have a quick reaction without hesitation after I see what the situation is. But you never know, it may not even be an enemy and could always be another country or one of our own. Be careful what you fire at Herr Kaleuns, you don't wat to start a problem when you don't know if there will be one!

[Cambaz]

I have had a stuation like that near brit. isles, rough seas and high level of fog suddenly a brit. DD!! I pushed the C button at hyper speed (with lots of curses) I never seen myself moving that fast but I thing C button is not working normally anymore because of the pressure and force that I caused but I survived...