Wondering what your habits are...

[Rockin Robbins]

Careful, vanjast. I'm not saying that your way will never produce results. I'm saying that all things being equal and easy three to ten times more targets are developed using the yo-yo technique.

Sure, if you submerge in a choke point and listen for three days you will develop some targets. But look at your disadvantage. You've spent lots of your battery wasting energy. When the battle comes, you are already disadvantaged. You have less endurance underwater and you are slowed down on the surface because your batteries aren't charged up. You will also double your fuel consumption for no gain.

However, having developed the same target with yo-yo, my batteries are fully charged, I can go 20 knots or more on the surface and have max endurance and speed underwater. My sub is much more combat ready than yours, and it's that way 100% of the time.

None of this is my idea. It's all from Capt. Eugene Fluckey of the USS Barb. He didn't even START his career until the middle of 1944. He's #3 on the all time tonnage list with 96,628 tons, all his tonnage coming from a time period when the majority of the boats were ostriches, returning to base empty handed except for a load of unused torpedoes. I'll follow his plan any day!