Thursday, October 21, 2021

Big Underwater Tube

 


6 comments:

  1. Don't get used to that Glamour Shot. As soon as they were done its down out of the sail, button up, and Dive Dive! You won't see them again for a month or more.

    74 days in the Indian Ocean for me.

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  2. Why such a wide wake? I've seen picture of aircraft carriers with wakes as such.

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    1. Hull shape. The sub is built for running submerged, and, while on the surface, you get what to the sub, is abnormal water flow, over the hull.

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  3. USS Atlanta (SSN-712) underway off Hampton Roads, Virginia, 30 January 1982.

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    1. January 1982, I was at CGAS San Francisco.

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