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RE: U-297 sunk while schnorkeling
Posted by: kurt ()
Date: March 20, 2001 11:21PM

<HTML>It was not uncommon for a submerged sub to be spotted by their upraised periscope, or the shadow of a sub at shallow depths visible from the air. But these required a bit of luck and favorable (smooth) sea conditions. Scnorkels raised the same type of vulnerability issues.

The vulnerability of a schnorkel was reduced over the persiscope situation in one sense because persicope raising usually occured during action, ie: near escorting ships and airplanes. But it was heightened by the long time spent schnorkeling, and by the sub being blind during its use. More than a few schnorkeling subs were spotted by the visual wake of their schnorkel and sunk without any idea they were being tracked. But overall it was still a world better then having to surface..</HTML>

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U-297 sunk while schnorkeling Tom Iwanski 03/19/2001 08:26PM
RE: U-297 sunk while schnorkeling Kelland Hutchence 03/19/2001 10:43PM
RE: U-297 sunk while schnorkeling kurt 03/20/2001 11:21PM
Blind during snorkeling? SuperKraut 03/22/2001 01:00PM
RE: Blind during snorkeling? Rainer Bruns 03/22/2001 02:11PM
Technical possibilities SuperKraut 03/24/2001 10:48PM
RE: Technical possibilities Rainer Bruns 03/26/2001 02:45PM
RE: Blind during snorkeling? kurt 03/22/2001 05:30PM
RE: Blind during snorkeling? Rainer Bruns 03/22/2001 05:35PM
RE: U-297 sunk while schnorkeling Rainer Bruns 03/20/2001 04:17AM
RE: U-297 sunk while schnorkeling james stewart 03/21/2001 07:03PM
RE: U-297 sunk while schnorkeling Ian Stapley 03/24/2001 04:06PM


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