near miss at periscope depth

Platapus · 07-19-08, 06:10 AM

I am not a sub guy, although I do play one on the computer.

How could this happen? Small ships such as this are not exactly stealthy.

If the sub were already at periscope depth would it not dive/change course to avoid the ship?

If the sub were submerged would not its sensors be abel to detect a this ship?

On another thread there were comments that our sub's sensors can track stuff from hundreds of kilometers.

Was the incident in the photographs an accident or was the ship supposed to be that close. The ship appears to be not a fishing boat but some sort of research type. Was this part of an experiment or test?

One of the gentlemen on the deck does not seem at all concerned (or particularly interested) in the periscopes that close.

And of course these days I always have to ask this question: Do we know for a fact that these are not fauxtographs? The periscopes seem different in the different pictures.

07-19-08, 06:10 AM	#3
Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 19,369 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	I am not a sub guy, although I do play one on the computer. How could this happen? Small ships such as this are not exactly stealthy. If the sub were already at periscope depth would it not dive/change course to avoid the ship? If the sub were submerged would not its sensors be abel to detect a this ship? On another thread there were comments that our sub's sensors can track stuff from hundreds of kilometers. Was the incident in the photographs an accident or was the ship supposed to be that close. The ship appears to be not a fishing boat but some sort of research type. Was this part of an experiment or test? One of the gentlemen on the deck does not seem at all concerned (or particularly interested) in the periscopes that close. And of course these days I always have to ask this question: Do we know for a fact that these are not fauxtographs? The periscopes seem different in the different pictures. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.