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24. Blackbeard had a submarine.

Sun Feb 1, 2015, 03:47 PM

Feb 2015

or maybe his ship became submarine.

I forget which.

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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