re: #308 eon

Hoops, I respect the heck out of you for building ‘em, and pingjockey for sailing ‘em. I was introduced to Red October in a Theatre Arts class in college (auditing courses for fun) by my prof, a retired Navy Senior Chief who’d served in diesel boats in the postwar days with PACFLT. He said that when the dockworkers welded steel straps over the rescue buoy housing well (or as he called it, the “I’m Dead” buoy), they knew they were heading for either the Chinese coast or the Russian coast, usually somewhere like Hangzhou or Vladivostok on “intelligence” missions (you know what he meant, I’m sure). And that “avoiding confrontation” be d***ed, they had warshots loaded on COMSUBPAC’s direct orders.

I was surprised that he actually liked Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea (TV version), which I loved as a kid and still do even today. He said that the stories were far-fetched, being science fiction for the most part, but the way Seaview was run rang true with sub drivers.

He was profoundly unimpressed with Seaquest DSV. That made two of us.

cheers

eon

This story is unclassified..back sometime in the 80’s the Navy really wanted to F**k with the Russian fleet..So some Officer Comes up with the idea to ping every single ship and sub in the Russian fleet at the exact moment.
So at some Zulu hour every ship got pinged with a ’ Hello..Here we are’
We hear it really freaked out the russian navy.