Back in the water!

Oche · November 06, 2012, 02:27:30 PM

Nice pics, job well done. 8)

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 08:29:18 AM

Enough Chinese emails for one night! It's time to get back on patrol.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 08:43:33 AM

08/30/42 20:26 - Will set up a barrier patrol for shipping going in/out of Taiwan Strait North of Foochow and Keelung. This will be hunting in the shallows. Either I will need to attack on the surface at night or take longer shots in the day time to give me time evade. Until now, I've been shooting at 600-2000yds, but I'll need to look at 4,000yds to get away.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 08:50:55 AM

We are now patrolling at less 1/2 our deep dive capability with roughly 200' under the keel. This will make us much more vulnerable. But one hunts where the prey is found.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 09:07:02 AM

02:21 - Contact SJ; already closed 13kyds. It's a poor night for a surface attack, we will probably submerge when in visual range and observe.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 09:09:15 AM

Calm sea and we are making 21 kts.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 09:16:41 AM

Looks like four merchants and an escort on the SJ:

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 09:49:13 AM

02:26 - Viz; Dive Dive Dive!; level off at PD; up scope!

See the small blip wide on the right. That's an escort.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 09:58:12 AM

02:45 Pretty shallow here. A very clear night, waiting to re-establish contact.

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 10:02:48 AM

03:00 PD no contact; they must have been sailing dead away from us; will try to surface and follow via SJ

MarkShot · November 11, 2012, 10:08:43 AM

03:04 - We lost them. Surfaced and back to barrier patrol. The fish that got away!

(My NiCD new phones are charged. Time to go play with the new phones and see if I can switch them to English.)

Oche · November 11, 2012, 05:41:24 PM

Love the rig for red light screens, thx again Mark.

MarkShot · November 12, 2012, 09:36:13 AM

It would have been better if I hadn't lose contact!

MarkShot · November 17, 2012, 11:34:34 PM

Finally, after a week of shopping and deliveries, I am back on patrol!

What I learned in the last two weeks is there this partitioning of knowledge in Chinese society of regarding everyday things. So, such things as a surge protector, grounded outlet, AMPs ... are not within the understand of Chinese women here, nor in their vocabulary sets (even when you go to a hardware store where they work). Often I read articles about USA IT and engineering that female students and employment lags behind males. It must be much worse here. I used to think that my nieces are being steered away from math, science, and engineering due to the personal biases of their mothers. But it is the whole society here.

And now back to patrol in SS-212, where everyone on board is a man and continuously studies every system on the boat to qualify for his dolphins. Thank G*d!

MarkShot · November 17, 2012, 11:47:16 PM

One thing I really don't like about the make partitioning in SHCE is that it limits you.

For example, take this contact report. It's too clear of a night to make a surface attack. Then, maybe I would want to set up for daylight submerged attack.

But I have no chance of doing that before the convoy simply runs off the map edge. If this was AOD, I would have as much time as I need to trail and setup the attack. So, I am just abandoning this one.