Orca Interaction Poll

[ducked]

You're discussing depth charges with a former submariner? Brave, but good luck.

Be a bit more relevent if he was a WW2 destroyer gunnery officer turned marine biologist,, but since, I'm ashore in Taiwan, I'm not an Orca, and I assume he's not in a submarine, I dont feel very vulnerable.

My experience of ASW is limited to rarely digging them up (along with a lot of other stuff) from The Maplin Sands when I was doing EOD there, so I'd be interested in any technical amendments to the above.

IIRC we did get some hedgehog bombs, and they were covered "theoretically" in training. but they were recovered too far out to have been launched from the shore, so presumably from vessels in the Thames. There was also a shore bombardment version launced from landing craft so they might have been from testing that when the tide was out, perhaps against minefields which were also present, though my team didn't find any.

We also got some (presumably longer range) rockets which hadn't been covered in training and accordingly were a bit "interesting" to dig up. These took a while to identify, but I cant remember what they turned out to be. Squid? seems to ring a bell though

Edit"Not Squid. Thats a three baeelled depth charge launcher. I suppose I was maybe thinking of the multi-limbed nature of the jet propelled mollusk. which seemed appropriate to an MLRS, but the only examples documented seem to be AA or air to ground. Quite a lot of prototype stuff dt Shoeburtness though didnt go operational.

 

[capnsensible]

Be a bit more relevent if he was a WW2 destroyer gunnery officer turned marine biologist,, but since, I'm ashore in Taiwan, I'm not an Orca, and I assume he's not in a submarine, I dont feel very vulnerable.

My experience of ASW is limited to rarely digging them up (along with a lot of other stuff) from The Maplin Sands when I was doing EOD there, so I'd be interested in any technical amendments to the above.

IIRC we did get some hedgehog bombs, and they were covered "theoretically" in training. but they were recovered too far out to have been launched from the shore, so presumably from vessels in the Thames. There was also a shore bombardment version launced from landing craft so they might have been from testing that when the tide was out, perhaps against minefields which were also present, though my team didn't find any.

We also got some (presumably longer range) rockets which hadn't been covered in training and accordingly were a bit "interesting" to dig up. These took a while to identify, but I cant remember what they turned out to be. Squid? seems to ring a bell though

Edit"Not Squid. Thats a three baeelled depth charge launcher. I suppose I was maybe thinking of the multi-limbed nature of the jet propelled mollusk. which seemed appropriate to an MLRS, but the only examples documented seem to be AA or air to ground. Quite a lot of prototype stuff dt Shoeburtness though didnt go operational.

 

[rogerthebodger]

There was a recommended way to protect your rudder but would injure the Orca what we need t\is to find a way to protect any damage to the rudder without injuring the orca with a hope to persuade the orca from further attempted damage