This video (about nine minutes long) is highly amusing, at least to most of us veterans. It contains a fair amount of bad language (also familiar to veterans), but if you'll forgive that, I think you'll find it entertaining. The submarine in question was the USS Flying Fish.
I think this encounter with Greenpeace offers an excellent example of what Massad Ayoob calls "a sudden and acute failure of the victim selection process" (by Greenpeace, of course).
Peter
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Video should come with a warning label, and a coupon for Depends™: Warning: Watching this may cause you to wet yourself.
Well-played.
Word to your mother: the first guy to do a faithful re-enactment video of this incident goes viral, and becomes an internet legend.
I want a jellyfish cannon. Also wanna see a video of this incident.
Loved the 'Here! Catch!'
One thing they totally missed, possibly because they have not experienced a Red Tide, is the absolute stench involved. I would rather hang out at a sewage treatment plant. On the other hand, if they truly were hippies, they might not notice the smell.
The 'screwdriver' that came up from the Engine Room was probably a deck plate screwdriver 3 feet long that weights a couple pounds. The Omaha had at least one that had been sharpened to an edge, not to mention big combination wrenches.
And yes, submariners DON'T fight fair. :-)
MM1(SS)
I was on a Sub while Greenpeace was doing this stuff. Our Captain's direction was no unauthorized personnel survive setting foot on my boat.
That said, we didn't want them to set foot on the boat. One option was to pressurize the sanitary system and blow the dock side fitting. High pressure wrinkle necked brown trout. Ship's accidently blow their pier side fitting all the time, easy to do on purpose. And yes, we sat around talking about other things we could do. Incidentally, had they gone down the aft engineering hatch they would have been in the engine room of a nuclear ship. for which the navy takes a very dim view.
Squadron tried a boarding exercise and our Trim and Drain system worked fine. T&D supplies fire fighting water in addition to it's regular duties. The duty crew ran the pressure up to max, and before the fire hose ruptured, while spraying, they flipped the zodiac and then played whack a mole with any heads above water. BZ from squadron.
We carried M-16s and M-14's. M-16's for repel boarders and M-14's for polar bears if we had to surface through the ice for some reason.
Those idiots got off lightly. LT(SS)
Going down a ladder blindly into a space full of athletic young men ready, willing, and ordered to hurt any intruders isn't a recipe for a comfortable time. The greenies were lucky they weren't able to try and enter the boat.
I note that the jellyfish puree cannon is lead free and biodegradable so that's nice for the Greenpeace lot, being all environmentally conscious and all that.
Phil B
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