With all the advanced sonar on the boat, they'd have seen the tanker literally miles away. One guy not hearing sufficiently well would not lead to such a situation.
I'm reminded of a _Get Smart_ episode in which 86 and 99 are captured and taken on a KAOS submarine. Siegfried the KAOS boss is at the periscope, doing a full sweep. "Nothing... nothing... nothing... six destroyers... SIX DESTROYERS?!"
There was a time when a Russian submarine almost surfaced right under the carrier USS America and then was the time the USS Greenville destroyed a Japanese fishing vessel when it surfaced. And the time the USS Connecticut hit an underground mountain and before that it hit a pier. Someone wasn't pay attention.
@@dritzzdarkwood4727 true, but why didn't the captain do both? Dive and sharp course change away from the tanker to buy more time for the dive to clear?
This was a remarkably good series. I myself am an American Army veteran, but I live in an area with a large submarine veteran community. All the 'bubbleheads' I talked to about this show were deeply impressed. [don't worry about the 'bubblehead' comment. I'm well aware that, to bubbleheads, I'm a 'non-qual treadhead' 🤣] BTW, they also told me that an incident like this would leave a VERY black mark in a CO's book.... and they wouldn't give two figs for the sonarman's promotion prospects either.
Or why not just turn to the left or right????? Or turn to the left or right while diving? but like other's said before me, how did they not hear the tanker from miles away?
Tanker: noisiest object in the ocean British submarine: designed to hear soviet submarines from 100 miles away. =sigh= This was a British submarine cop drama VIGIL which , apart from the crazily spacious submarine sets, was a great watch.
Lol this isn't WW2, a tanker going 15 knts would be detected miles away and they would have easily missed it if they just turned full left or right rudder and ahead full. 😂
Ok - this was POORLY written: 1) The draft of even the LARGEST tankers is less than 30 meters - most are 20-28 meters. The submarine does not need to do some crazy crash dive maneuver to drop 30 meters. They could drop 40 meters, maybe 50 and be clear. Now - in fairness the TURBULENCE of the props of a supertanker would not be fun ..... 2) Modern submarines have SONAR - very very sensitive passive sonar that can not only tell that "something is there" but, by acoustic signature can tell a whale from a trawler to a naval vessel to a tanker. Look - I love a good sub drama, but did ANYONE consult someone who knows about subs?
There was a time when a Russian submarine almost surfaced right under the carrier USS America and then was the time the USS Greenville destroyed a Japanese fishing vessel when it surfaced. And the time the USS Connecticut hit an underground mountain and, a year before that, it hit a pier. One would think that it isn't possible, but there have been many instances when it has happened.
@@gbonkers666 I'd need to hear the details on those stories - but 1) Greenville - if that vessel was sitting w/out the engine running .... 2) Connecticut - both of those are hitting SILENT object. None of that addresses the depth issue.
Try watching the show before commenting, there was a very good reason why the tanker wasn't heard by anyone on the sub but I know you were just too giddy with excitement to join the conversation with zero context so I'll let it go this time.
"You'll let it go" - gee, how magnanimous and said out of false sense of knowledge and arrogance. No - as a military man w/over 25 years of service - and knowing my "bubbleheads" (submariners) you have not one clue of what you speak. The sonar operators - and there are often 2 working at any given time - are CONTINUOUSLY monitoring the sonar. Even if one guy is watching "this target" or such - there is something called the "Waterfall display" - regardless if someone is LOOKING at it at that moment, or for 10 minutes, it's showing and recording the entire sonar picture for MILES around the sub. A tanker that size would be a MASSIVE hit on the sonar - it's not just "he looked away" for 1 min or 5 min - the waterfall display would have alerted - the VISUAL on the display would have been showing it - there's literally a RED FLASHING LIGHT as any new contact appears ... Don't talk with supposed authority on things you clearly know nothing about.
@@krashd thinking about it now they probably turn it off also being British the crew needs some transgenders dwarfs couple cripples or it just does not look real
not watched the series but no way they dont know about the tanker from 20k yards minimum with passive systems on a modern sub so i dont think i want to watch it
@@AcutePanic41 Perhaps,perhaps , You are wright . But these days it is really difficult to find a true British nationalist and patriots around, even in the Navy. Woke leftist crap and parasites , who infiltrate everywhere. So ( again ) perhaps when the time is come , UK should consider Russia as a friend and liberator , not as enemy....
Pitiful is having such little experience of TV or movies that whenever you see absolutely anything with a submarine in it you immediately think "Das boot!".
