St patricks Day greetings

Well just coming back to normal after St patricks day. I tried to post in the we are drunk thread but I couldn't see the screen so i dropped it after about 1 hour and two pass outs. Anyway hope you guys and gals all had a good one.
muracu

Had 6 pints of the black stuff on Saturday afternoon as a belated St Paddy's

Hmmm,

Flood to 90 feet
Up scope
What month is it?

Now where is that dog that needs a haircut?

:D :drink:

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Originally posted here by nihil
Hmmm,

Flood to 90 feet
Up scope
What month is it?

Now where is that dog that needs a haircut?

:D :drink:

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jesu...s nihil I always knew you had the biggest scope, but 90' come on, a little hyperbole maybe..... :D

Dolphin Code: 19......:-)

Hah!

I am probably showing my age. I guess the definition of periscope depth is the length of the tube, which was about 60 feet maximum IIRC.

The question is then where do you measure depth from. I believe our guys used to use the base of the keel, which would probably account for the anomaly?

Anyway, it is all old hat now? our new Astute class uses photonic masts ;)

Anyways, I found this and thought of you :D

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/srelax.htm

The official rules for skiving in a sub?

Dolphin Code 33 :cool:

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Originally posted here by nihil
Hah!

I am probably showing my age. I guess the definition of periscope depth is the length of the tube, which was about 60 feet maximum IIRC.

The question is then where do you measure depth from. I believe our guys used to use the base of the keel, which would probably account for the anomaly?

Anyway, it is all old hat now? our new Astute class uses photonic masts ;)

Anyways, I found this and thought of you :D

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/srelax.htm

The official rules for skiving in a sub?

Dolphin Code 33 :cool:

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Boy that was a read, what's funny is when (this was one of my jobs onboard) you load a red grenade instead of a green grenade, and fire it and be in the control room (I used to read off bearings for the skipper on the attack scope during battle exercises) and my alternate watchman would be responsible for firing the pyros, and the skipper would say load a green grenade (which when fired indicated to the skimmers that they just received a fish courtesy of the RCN), then "fire" and he would like to watch from the scope, and once instead of green it was red, well the look on his face was priceless, and he froze, instead of carrying out emergancy surface procedures, which in the meantime all of the ASW units are scrambling out of the way because the red grenade indicates Sub in distress, and they don't want us coming up under them.

That skipper nearly went ballistic with the guy who loaded the wrong grenade, almost throttled him (mostly because of all of the reports he would have to write up)....

Usually the skipper will level out at 65', and raise the search scope, for the attack scope it's a little higher 60', and he is able to lower to get a better shot, as the fish is wire guided from the attack scope.....(sounds like a TuT to me eh!)

I'm surprised the skipper didn't make him get out and walk home for that one. I prefere staying on the surface of the sea myself. but still it takes all sorts :D.

The only thing I dont like about going to war in a boat....there's no-where to run when the **** hits the fan!!

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Originally posted here by Nokia
The only thing I dont like about going to war in a boat....there's no-where to run when the **** hits the fan!!

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Ahhh but the trick is they have to find you first, when you say boat, I am assuming you mean a submarine, because you can carry a boat on a ship, but you can't carry a ship on a boat.(just some Naval stuff for ya)....:-)

And if I had my druther's I would rather be on a boat then a [insert target]...ship...(/insert target) :D

Still prefer a ship Dalek. At least a ship has a fairly good chance of surviving a hit. For submarines even a near hit can be fatal. Also if the ship does start to go down, unless you are in the engine room, you have even odds of getting off her. Unless it is a gas tanker. Then ,depending on the gas being transported, you have about 30 seconds to get half a mile away. Run forrest run............