Through the Gibraltar in '44

meduza · 07-18-09, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Torplexed

You might wanna sneak a few extra oxygen canisters aboard. Everytime I've done a Gibraltar run I'm almost turning blue by the end.

Hopefully the snorkel will be of some use.

It was easy the last time I passed through in early '42 - flank speed on surface.

Toolworx · 07-18-09, 06:13 PM

Wait for a stormy night. Heavy rain low vis and sneak through.

Torplexed · 07-18-09, 06:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Toolworx

Wait for a stormy night. Heavy rain low vis and sneak through.

Not sure if that'll work in 1944 environment when every Allied ship larger than a rowboat has a radar set.

meduza · 07-18-09, 06:37 PM

It definitely wouldn't work. It's too narrow to escape radar detection.

Task Force · 07-18-09, 06:42 PM

Good luck... everytime I attempt to go throught Gibraltar I get a cdt.

meduza · 07-19-09, 07:16 AM

I'm making a slow but steady progress. most of the time I'm submerged because of the aircrafts. Now I'm 20km from the entrance to the Strait, with a lot of patrols around. I was overrun by a task force, and one destroyer passed directly over me. I thought he detected me but it was just a coincidence.

I'm not going to surface again but will continue at 220m. The air supply should last, and I should be out of the Strait within 24h.

Jimbuna · 07-19-09, 07:35 AM

2 knots with charged batteries and a full supply of air should see you through....good luck

07-18-09, 06:37 PM	#4
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	It definitely wouldn't work. It's too narrow to escape radar detection. __________________

07-18-09, 06:42 PM	#5
Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	Good luck... everytime I attempt to go throught Gibraltar I get a cdt. __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

07-19-09, 07:16 AM	#6
meduza Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: on patrol Posts: 1,035 Downloads: 40 Uploads: 0	I'm making a slow but steady progress. most of the time I'm submerged because of the aircrafts. Now I'm 20km from the entrance to the Strait, with a lot of patrols around. I was overrun by a task force, and one destroyer passed directly over me. I thought he detected me but it was just a coincidence. I'm not going to surface again but will continue at 220m. The air supply should last, and I should be out of the Strait within 24h. __________________

07-19-09, 07:35 AM	#7
Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 190,818 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	2 knots with charged batteries and a full supply of air should see you through....good luck __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!!

07-18-09, 06:13 PM	#2
Toolworx Seaman Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 33 Downloads: 42 Uploads: 0	Wait for a stormy night. Heavy rain low vis and sneak through.