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taterguy

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6. Oh FFS

Reply to R B Garr (Reply #5)

Sat Jan 31, 2015, 02:56 PM

Jan 2015

It's not a question of getting in.

It's a question of hiding the sub once it's there.

Have you ever been on the fucking PAmlico Sound?

You can see the bottom in most parts of it.

It sure as hell isn't deep enough to hide a sub.

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The Pamlico Sound is too shallow to hide a submarine [View all] taterguy Jan 2015 OP

Are you reading "The Hunt for Red October"? Algernon Moncrieff Jan 2015 #1

I read it a long time ago taterguy Feb 2015 #25

Not Turbineguy Jan 2015 #2

A fictional Sound? taterguy Jan 2015 #4

Hahaha In_The_Wind Jan 2015 #3

Not if you dynamite your way in like R B Garr Jan 2015 #5

Oh FFS taterguy Jan 2015 #6

Okay. Well, you can paint it sand color R B Garr Jan 2015 #12

River bottom mud color? taterguy Jan 2015 #13

True. So I Googled it, and this is what I got: R B Garr Jan 2015 #17

Put that in the Sound and you could do hurricane evacs in half an hour taterguy Feb 2015 #22

that was then. this is now. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 #7

What then? taterguy Jan 2015 #8

You call it sediment; submariners call it camouflage. pinboy3niner Jan 2015 #9

If anything it's got less depth, due to sediment. exactly. Tuesday Afternoon Jan 2015 #10

Why? Is there one missing? kentauros Jan 2015 #11

Wouldn't that depend on the size of the submarine? surrealAmerican Jan 2015 #14

"Forget it, he's rolling" pinboy3niner Jan 2015 #15

Maybe it was just a case of war nerves... kentauros Jan 2015 #16

Um, are you in one already? shenmue Jan 2015 #18

Probably. elleng Jan 2015 #19

Is this a Hunley thread? kwassa Jan 2015 #20

Now you've done it: In_The_Wind Feb 2015 #23

We'll see about that. taterguy Feb 2015 #26

Has anyone actually *found* a submarine in the Sound recently? petronius Jan 2015 #21

Blackbeard had a submarine. kwassa Feb 2015 #24