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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 2974
Location: Liverpool, England | Subject: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Here is a comprehensive video and as expected of the Germans a very professional presentation of their modern U-Boat arm.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcgDyxADsiM
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COMSUBBBS
Posts: 3669
Location: Kansas City Missouri | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Never had a problem with liquids, an open container and computers
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Senior Crew
Posts: 225
Location: San Diego, CA | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Excellent documentary.
It has got be tough to be port and starboard for three weeks. Poor cook is always on duty.
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Great Sage of the Sea
Posts: 606
Location: Citrus County FL | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
6 torpedos, no reloads? With all that h2 and o2, perhaps the boat itself is a warshot. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1262
Location: Va.Beach,Va. | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Great flic. Good lookin boat.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1603
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Only eighty boat sailors overall and six submarines - I'm guessing three boats at the most are deployed? Interesting to me while maneuvering to sea the captain is on the scope, and goes topside only as a last check before the boat dives - I can't imagine any skipper not wanting to be topside in a busy port - I can't imagine a skipper preferring the bridge over a periscope in a busy port. The video made a comment the helmsman is to go to the proper depth? Since their crew is 30 or less maybe that explains the helm being responsible for depth, or are the helm and bow planes interconnected these days on boats, or maybe the comment was simply a misstatement?
In any case thank you for sharing this video with us.
Edited by Gil 2020-02-24 1:08 PM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1576
Location: Wollongong, NSW | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
OMC - one man control has been standard for many a year. Was hydraulic but probably electronic now. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1603
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Thank you for clearing that up, I had no idea. Are the stern planes separate from that or are they included these days? |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1814
Location: Boydton, Virginia | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Isn't Germany and Japan still limited to defensive weaponry and personnel by treaty signed as part of their surrender in 1945?
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1796
Location: Albany, GA. | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Couple of things. I guess they can't make pure water to drink, hence the bottled water? Seems like an awful lot of trash, plastic bottles and cans, never mind the beer bottles. One ORSE I got a ride in a body bag to the ships freezer from ERUL. Got bumped on more than one hatch. Wonder how the guy on the soft stretcher made out. How does 60 seconds compare to dive time for a WWII Sub? Seems a bit tighter quarters than on my FBM
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1603
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I was talking to a former mess cook on another diesel boat. I guess sometime before '68 when he was mess cooking on a Pearl to Pearl run. A Chief died suddenly of what was an aneurysm. The crew couldn't do anything but put the body bag in one of the freeze boxes until they could move to a location many days later and rendezvous with a helicopter to remove the body. I was just about to start my mess cooking and remember the guy telling me of how eerie it felt having to crawl over the body bag to get provisions for soup downs.
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1576
Location: Wollongong, NSW | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
The planes in a one man control system are linked. Depth control is not as accurate as the separate planes and helm can be but those circumstances are few and far between.WWII Uboats could get under in seconds. The modern submarine has smaller openings in casing and ballast tanks to reduce flow noise. Once the snorkel system became 'everyday' fit, the need for a fast diving boat was gone. Fresh water is rarely made in a non-nuclear, the power required is too high. In the tropics, the condensation forming on the A/C plants was far more than the distiller could ever make. Everyone could have a daily saltwater shower followed by a quick freshwater rinse. |
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Plankowner
Posts: 9165
Location: Upper lefthand corner of the map. | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
My crew could have manned their boats with a crew left over. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1603
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I'd sure like to see first hand how they accomplish that and also maintain the bubble. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1323
Location: Oxnard, CA | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Computers and "fly" by wire, Gil, computers and fly by wire. The emergency override is a set of manual hydraulics in the stern. |
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Master and Commander
Posts: 1890
Location: Patterson, New York | Subject: RE: Modern U-Boat Sailors
Good video; very informative.
They used a little of the Das Boot music in the background.
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