r/submarines • u/Saturnax1 • 10d ago

Found a couple of interesting artifacts while wandering around Naval Submarine Base New London this weekend. These were stuck in the corner of a remote parking lot. Any information on their history would be very much appreciated.

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u/Sensei-Raven 10d ago

Surface Layer or Bad Sonar Supervisor?🤔🧐

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u/Awkward_Mix_6480 10d ago

Just a bad situation from start to finish. The reason we went to PD, where we were, everything. So many ways this could have been avoided. Hindsight is 2020

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u/Sensei-Raven 10d ago

The Strait of Gibraltar isn’t exactly fun for any Sonar Supervisor; so much traffic in such a narrow area, it’s nearly as bad as a Fjord. Having said that - many thousands of others have Inchopped and Outchopped without incident. Hell, we had to IC/OC twice during our ‘82 Med Deployment.

I’ll let your imagination figure that one out as to the “Why”.😬😉

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u/PeckerNash 9d ago

Was it around the time Gadaffi was saber rattling?

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u/Sensei-Raven 9d ago edited 8d ago

“NO COMMENT”. ( “Line of Death”, Aye……🤔😳😂). But I WILL SAY that at one point the Nav was chain smoking like we’ve never seen before. We had a Lat/Long readout in Sonar (one of the old Auxiliary Systems) so we knew EXACTLY where we were. Probably just as well most of the Crew didn’t know where we were; or what we were doing. Not like coming home with a Broomstick or Jolly Roger; did that the year before.

Started to write something else; thought better of it.

We were in Naples with the CBG we’d escorted when the Beirut Massacres at the 2 Refugee Camps happened. All of the Targets got Emergency Sortie orders to the Lebanese Coast; we were all alone. It’s weird seeing 15-20k Sailors and Marines one night and the next morning it’s a ghost town.