A bit of a scare

Grey Area · 08-23-06, 06:43 AM

Had a bit of a scare yesterday while cruising towards Scapa Flow after keeping my assigned patrol grid.

Got a ship spotted message from my highly trained watch crew. After I pulled on my overcoat and hauled up to the bridge to take a look, sure enough there was a DD dead ahead with his nose on me.

I thought to myself, "there's no way he can see me from here?" but I crashed dived anyway and continued the dive down to ~100M.

As I heard the DD approach I ordered silent running and dead slow on the screws. Heart in my mouth, with the ops crew briefed on emergency maneoveres the DD approached overhead as we all strained to hear the splash of the depth charges.

Nothing, nada. The DD just passed over us, and I mean DIRECTLY over us without even a twitch of rudder. It must have been a coincedene of our tracks.

Dynamic campaign - ya gotta love it.

08-23-06, 06:43 AM	#1
Grey Area Watch Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 16 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	A bit of a scare Had a bit of a scare yesterday while cruising towards Scapa Flow after keeping my assigned patrol grid. Got a ship spotted message from my highly trained watch crew. After I pulled on my overcoat and hauled up to the bridge to take a look, sure enough there was a DD dead ahead with his nose on me. I thought to myself, "there's no way he can see me from here?" but I crashed dived anyway and continued the dive down to ~100M. As I heard the DD approach I ordered silent running and dead slow on the screws. Heart in my mouth, with the ops crew briefed on emergency maneoveres the DD approached overhead as we all strained to hear the splash of the depth charges. Nothing, nada. The DD just passed over us, and I mean DIRECTLY over us without even a twitch of rudder. It must have been a coincedene of our tracks. Dynamic campaign - ya gotta love it.