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Don Gentry

Posted 2019-01-23 8:56 AM (#93213)

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Subject: Near miss in Irish Sea

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-46954212

rover177

Posted 2019-01-23 12:51 PM (#93214 - in reply to #93213)

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Location: Wollongong, NSW

Subject: RE: Near miss in Irish Sea

So a probably junior officer was carrying out an old periscope target approach. Might have been completely done using the Mk I eyeball and in-head calculations.

For a ferry to see a periscope, the submarine would be on the beam (no danger) or ahead and probably preparing to carry out a duck and under, then back up again. Irish sea area, every possibility that a boat was being used for COQC (Perisher) course.

Nothing to worry about, apart from the fact that the periscope was left dangling too long and thus spotted.

GaryKC

Posted 2019-01-23 2:43 PM (#93215 - in reply to #93213)

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Subject: RE: Near miss in Irish Sea

Was it consensual?

Sewer Pipe Snipe

Posted 2019-01-23 3:36 PM (#93216 - in reply to #93213)

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Subject: RE: Near miss in Irish Sea

Certainly wasn't the first time. Operating out of Holy Loch there were several ferry incidents in the seventies.

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