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March 21, 2016, 10:46:39 AM Last Edit: January 29, 2017, 03:26:33 PM by Chuck McCue
Chuck McCue
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Charles Hunter

#1
March 21, 2016, 12:14:36 PM
Ummm, OK. There is a sub base just a few miles up the coast, doesn't semester this would be all that unusual.

spuwho

#2
March 21, 2016, 12:25:57 PM
I met a tech for this sub a few weeks ago. They are going on 3-6 month cruise. Destination was not revealed for obvious reasons. He said he didnt even know where they were going and he didnt need to. To him a mission is a mission.

spuwho

#3
March 21, 2016, 12:57:23 PM
Quote from: Chuck McCue on March 21, 2016, 12:40:59 PM
Subs in our waters is not unusual, Subs captured on a camera...Not so normal.

When I lived in Seattle, we used to go out to the former Fort Casey and watch the subs come and go out of the Hood Canal sub base above water.

Even cooler was watching the guard dolphins swimming along side, jumping periodically.

Perhaps the Atlantic sub fleet cant be so visible most of the time.

BridgeTroll

#4
March 21, 2016, 02:53:35 PM
This is a Virginia class SSN... not normally ported at Kings Bay...
In a boat at sea one of the men began to bore a hole in the bottom of the boat. On being remonstrating with, he answered, "I am only boring under my own seat." "Yes," said his companions, "but when the sea rushes in we shall all be drowned with you."

Elwood

#5
March 21, 2016, 05:26:58 PM
If that photo is recent, that boat isn't deploying anywhere soon; not with the missing hull tiles clearly seen along the waterline in the photo.

Tacachale

#6
March 22, 2016, 11:32:29 AM
Quote from: Elwood on March 21, 2016, 05:26:58 PM
If that photo is recent, that boat isn't deploying anywhere soon; not with the missing hull tiles clearly seen along the waterline in the photo.

It could be coming in to have work done before deployment.
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Dog Walker

#7
March 22, 2016, 03:05:44 PM
We were boating through the St. Mary's inlet a few years ago when a sub came in.  We were all excited about how big it was when we saw WAY behind it, the tail fin that is on the stern.  Those things are Huuuge!  It was one of the missile subs which I think are longer than the attack subs.
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Josh

#8
March 22, 2016, 04:23:16 PM
Yeah, the ballistic missile subs are nearly twice the size of fast attack subs.

I was fishing near the jetties as a kid when a sub came in and had our small boat rocking for a while. They are extremely menacing up-close and while moving through the water.

exnewsman

#9
March 22, 2016, 05:48:19 PM
You sure that's not Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin and the Hunt for Red October?

ChriswUfGator

#10
March 23, 2016, 10:26:03 PM
The Virginia's the one with the garages for the seal boats and pressure chamber so they can embark/disembark underwater, right? Pretty cool stuff. Blind mans bluff is an incredible book if you're into this subject. Having been on the water when one passes they're definitely intimidating for some reason. Something about all that mass so low slung and barely visible.

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