Diesel boats are super silent. A PLAN diesel boat surfaced next to a US carrier on exersize in the Gulf, the carrier crew shat themselves as they did not know it was there. The boat's crew asked the USN if they had any rice as their supplies were gone.
Yeah... those diesels are preeeety damned quiet... I can't remember who it was... but someone was working on a state of the art version... may the NK were threatening... but it seemed like it was the brits or one of the scandinavians...
my old man was on a boomer when both I and my little bro were born... did not have time to do another 6 months so they put him on a diesel for the last little bit... had fun on that one too... talked about snorkling (I think the germans spelled it different) in rough seas and when the waves would go over it every ear on the boat popped...
Said he was in his final year before he ever got sea sick...
Diesel boats are super silent. A PLAN diesel boat surfaced next to a US carrier on exersize in the Gulf, the carrier crew shat themselves as they did not know it was there. The boat's crew asked the USN if they had any rice as their supplies were gone.
And there was this, but it isn't diesel: https://www.twz.com/how-a-british-submarine-spent-hours-under-a-russian-aircraft-carrier
Yeah... those diesels are preeeety damned quiet... I can't remember who it was... but someone was working on a state of the art version... may the NK were threatening... but it seemed like it was the brits or one of the scandinavians...
my old man was on a boomer when both I and my little bro were born... did not have time to do another 6 months so they put him on a diesel for the last little bit... had fun on that one too... talked about snorkling (I think the germans spelled it different) in rough seas and when the waves would go over it every ear on the boat popped...
Said he was in his final year before he ever got sea sick...
Miss my pop