Posted on 06/16/2010 4:51:14 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Leaving San Diego Harbor on a 5 day tuna trip the captain spotted a sub surfacing a mile away off our port beam. Pretty neat sight to see it in person, especially because it looked like an older diesel model that was riding quite high in the water.
I’ve been out on the water off Lauderdale, when all of a sudden, out of the blue, a sub just appears.
Too cool!
Been there done that in old diesel subs 45+ years ago...going into New London.
you mean
ROTTEN GROTON ?
Just what I was thinking. Probably a German U-Boat still carrying on. Hahahaha.
I read a horror novel about that very thing, about thirty years ago. Let me see if I can find the title...
Ah- here it is. The Night Boat. U-Boat full of voodoo-cursed undead cannibalistic Kreigsmarine submariners.
We were sailing in the same general area, another time. A mile or so off the coast. I was usually at the helm (DH was usually plotting courses) and I always had a chart in my hands. (We sailed, with the family, for about two week stretches) I always wanted to know exactly where we were, where the next buoy was and all that. I noticed a very very small island, off in the distance, that was NOT on the charts! I could see what appeared to be a short dark structure on it, and waves breaking on a shore just below the structure. We were really puzzled! Then the whole thing turned and we realized it was a sub when we saw the diving planes/?fins? on the side of the tower!! LOLOL! Puzzle solved!
Thirteen years later he caught one, but he still didn't have an answer.
This was back about 1988 I was sailing my 30' Sabre from Block Island to Clinton, CT. Perhaps a mile off Fisher Island, NY I hear a warning on Channel 16, which I'm not paying much attention to as it's a clear summer day, indicating that a Navy vessel was in close proximity. Not sure that I heard it right maintained my course, essentially WSW, a few minutes later off to port, maybe a half mile, a Navy sub surfaces. The sub was inbound to New London.
“The Night Boat”.
Boy if that doesn’t say John Carpenter directed film or what!
That would make a good movie.
Hey sarge, I think I destroyed the sub....I saw it sink :)
Leaving San Diego Harbor on a 5 day tuna trip...
I thought you were still playing the caption game...
Oh, to be young again!
In 1960/61, aboard the USS piper, SS409. We regularly sailed from New London into the Long Island Sound on training missions and orienting missions for Naval Academy Midshipmen, Doing 10-12 dives a day, Monday- Friday.
One day the C.O., looking through the scope say’s “holy s*^&”, “SURFACE”. Upon surfacing, going to our lookout positions, in the shears, we just had to look in the direction the CO was looking( no war, LI Sound). About 300 yards off was a 40-45ft yacht, with 2 bikini clad women, who, upon seeing us surface, stood up and started waving. This was the first bikini any of us ever saw. Brigid Bardot’s movie came out about that time. Some Fun
Could be a Tranny? You can’t see the front.
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