Reply #64: I agree.

[Uncle Roy]

ALL of the posts on this thread are speculative, if not downright silly. peterh's post has more substance than most.

We KNOW that subs play cat and mouse. And we know that governments never fess up about it. I'm not sure why this is, exactly, since each side knows the other is doing it. The activity might technically be construed as an act of war, especially if something goes wrong and one sub gets seriously damaged or sunk. Maybe the governments fear things could get out of hand politically if they told the truth. Pressure to retaliate, loss of face otherwise, embarrassing comments... the whole thing has an adolescent male hot rodder feel to it.

Again, we don't know if that's what happened here, but it's fun to speculate, and sometimes informative, too; and if speculative posts disappeared from DU, there wouldn't be a whole lot left...

R