near miss at periscope depth

Cohaagen · 07-21-08, 01:15 PM

Safe-Keeper,

I'm not going to get into an argument with you. Responding to the gullibility of others by adopting a default "no...no...no" position isn't intelligent, it's reflexive thinking. To be honest, I couldn't care less what people say about "viral" videos. I don't watch that sort of guff and I'm certainly not interested in whether people are taken in by them or not.

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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper

You say they're "obviously real", and post as evidence a site that simply reproduces them and offers no evidence?

So now we're into needing "evidence"? For what - a submarine passing within a few feet of a small ship? What kind of sad bastard would take the time out to Photoshop that? Not exactly a big shark leaping at a guy hanging off a helicopter from a rope ladder, is it?

Safe-Keeper · 07-21-08, 04:59 PM

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So now we're into needing "evidence"?

I'm not the kind of person who believes things without evidence, no.

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For what - a submarine passing within a few feet of a small ship? What kind of sad bastard would take the time out to Photoshop that? Not exactly a big shark leaping at a guy hanging off a helicopter from a rope ladder, is it?

The kind of sad ****** who likes to have people around the Web spread his picture and gasp at the alleged moment of near-catastrophe. The same kind of "sad ******" spreads other interesting pictures, real or not.

But I agree, this has to be Bernard, or whatever his American counterpart is called (Parker?).
"Damnit, you nitwit, we nearly hit that trawler! Good thing they didn't see us! Parker, why didn't you sound the alarm?"
"Why, CO, you told me to watch out for enemy warships. If that's a warship, I'm a Swedish landlubb--"
"PAARKEEEEER!"

Cohaagen · 07-21-08, 05:40 PM

I can tell you for a fact it's not a fishing boat - I used to work on one. It's a small Argentine naval vessel. Trawlers have nets and winches and winding gear, and the crew wear wellies. They don't have their deck space taken up with a big fluourescent RIB, and they're usually not painted naval grey.

This is a ship from the same class:

Note the boom and the orange RIB on the quarterdeck.

07-21-08, 05:40 PM	#3
Cohaagen Frogman Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: UK Posts: 296 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	I can tell you for a fact it's not a fishing boat - I used to work on one. It's a small Argentine naval vessel. Trawlers have nets and winches and winding gear, and the crew wear wellies. They don't have their deck space taken up with a big fluourescent RIB, and they're usually not painted naval grey. This is a ship from the same class: Note the boom and the orange RIB on the quarterdeck.