Posted on 06/17/2021 9:34:46 AM PDT by Capt. Tom
Your metaphor blender is acting up again....
;>)
Well, that is certainly true. It was interesting that the Japanese sub commander was called in to testify that Captain McVay had not been zig-zagging, but...he also testified that it wouldn’t have made any difference if he had.
With no escorts and a moonlit night...I am sure he was able to get pretty close. I have no doubt they were wary, wondering what this cruiser was doing all by itself out there with no escorts.
My dad was career Navy, and he understood the whole “Good of the Naval Service” thing and accepted it, but my mother hated it. When she talked about “for the Good of the Naval Service” her dark eyes flashed with anger and her voice dripped with scorn.
She had seen good men get torpedoed for “The Good of The Naval Service” and viewed it dimly.
My dad was a personal acquaintance of CDR Lloyd Bucher of the USS Pueblo, and my mom had very strong feelings about his treatment after he was released, but my dad never said anything about it.
“and Killer Whales”
‘Killer’ whales are generally only a danger to humans when they are in captivity. Out in the wild they just about never attack humans and have actually defended humans from other predators from time to time.
“Sharks don’t differentiate”
Parts is parts.
We are protein too.
They’re not villains. They’re just mindless eating machines that will just as soon wolf down a human as a big fish.
Are you maybe thinking of dolphins?
I’ve heard that about oceanic white tips too. The middle of the ocean is pretty barren of resources, so they can’t take the chance of passing up any potential meal.
Freegards
Down with White Shark Supremacy!
White sharks don’t come to YOUR neighborhood
and eat you when you go down to the mail box.
Dress up like a seal and swim in the ocean...?
Well, yes, and no, as so-called “killer whales” are actually in the dolphin family. But no, I am not confusing them with some other form of dolphins.
I had a similar experience, when I lived in Miami. My girlfriend and I were skinnydipping off Key Biscayne at night, when one LARGE shark went right between us. I haven’t been back in the ocean, since.
” My girlfriend and I were skinnydipping off Key Biscayne at night, when one LARGE shark went right between us. I haven’t been back in the ocean, since.”
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Perhaps you should try it in the daytime. Pick a nice beach as shown in the clip below, with no seals around, and swim out just beyond the breakers for a relaxing ocean visit to build up your confidence. -tom
https://twitter.com/i/status/1405163257002827782
Never go swimming with bow legged women. Oh’ and hang on to you dingalingling. They look for food. You’re on the menu.
The U.S.S. Indianapolis. Poor guys.
Humans are pretty low on the food chain - in the mountains w/ bears, mtn lions, wolves, wild boars - and in the ocean - sharks, barracuda, other stuff - so I avoid those places, unless I carry my AR-50 Beowulf and Kimber 1911 .45 ACP in the wilderness. Haven’t been in the ocean since the early 70s, due to a close encounter with a large shark.
I’m a landlubber now, at 72.
That’s what I read also. And they patrol along lazily. In the middle of the pacific, there’s no rush. And every scrap of protein in the water is theirs.
Jacques Cousteau also thought they were the most dangerous of all sharks.
You are fortunate not to have interests that take you those places the animals live. Me I don’t worry so much about animals unless they have only two legs. That’s what my Walther is for. If I still lived around or in the water I’d figure I could be on the menu. Everything is on the food chain at some point. In the Rockies I carry heavier than Mr Walther made but “a hole is a hole, as they say”.
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