"Well, there's that."
Posted on 11/14/2024 7:50:37 AM PST by DFG
Norwegian sailors who set out for a routine fishing expedition made an unexpected and utterly sensational catch earlier this week when they managed to entangle an American nuclear-powered attack submarine.
The Øygutt, or 'Island Boy', a humble 10-metre-long fishing vessel, left port on the stunning village of Sommarøy high above the Arctic Circle on Monday.
Having scooped hundreds of kilos of fish in a lucrative haul worth some £1,500 that morning, they redeployed the nets for a second load.
But moments later the trawling equipment was torn clean off the side of the ship by the unsuspecting USS Virginia - a 7,800-ton, 115-meter-long fast-attack behemoth.
The state-of-the-art submarine - the lead ship of its class - was sailing silently through the waters northeast of Sommarøy having recently left the Arctic city of Tromsø when it inadvertently swept up the entire line of halibut nets.
Harald Engen, one of a three-member crew aboard Øygutt, told Norway's NRK how they had just re-set the nets and were making their way back to shore when the coast guard radioed in on VHF channel 16.
'A submarine had gotten into our halibut nets and had towed them two nautical miles northward into the open sea,' Engen recounted, still in disbelief.
The young fishermen now have an excellent story to tell - but lament the destruction of their nets which are now lost to the bottom of the sea.
The dinky fishing boat was of course no match for the state-of-the-art submarine, which tore the nets away from the hull before calling for help.
Though their first haul of halibut and plaice put more than 20,000 Norwegian kroner in their pocket, the nets torn away by the USS Virginia are worth some 40,000-50,000 kroner.
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His name is ‘Eric’, Eric The Fish....’ees an ‘alibut!
What a fish story he has now ,LOL
Some more officers being sacked for ‘lack of confidence’ now...
Guys are luck they didn’t get their boat dragged down.
US Navy is possibly in the roughest shape of all the branches.
That almost beats being swallowed by a whale.
A real “Deadliest Catch”
“Conn, Sonar, new contact: fishing net, bearing 270”
Sub driver “Hold my beer”
But you should have seen the one that got away! /snark
In all seriousness, nets don’t generally show up on sonar. Very effective.
Of course, the Virginia tore through it. But they played nice. Otherwise, that fishing trawler would have been mist in seconds. But even under the idiotic Biden/Harris admin we don’t sink civilian craft.
Carbon fiber nets — which we have — are far more effective. Also cannot be sensed by radar or sonar. Works on about anything. Esp if gets into the props.
We of course have counters.
A whale of a tale if ever there was!
I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat
Flipping through The Guide to DEI Making Decisions, the officer of the watch could not find an answer to the (AI generated) question asked by The Washington Post: “What was the first gender that came to mind, when your submarine was overtaken by a net?”
Oh that sub captain should be FIRED. Just my humble opinion.
Heard about someone who is in some place of prominence who does that firing thing. Cannot recall who. /lol
Norway fishermen’s new poem:
“That ain’t no Halibut!
Oy! I know.
I feel it in my gut”!
Same as everyone else's:
I swear it was THIS big!
But it got away...
No- but an inquiry into what they knew was on the surface in their path is definitely in order. Ignoring potential fishing vessels being an example.
They could (in time of war, would) have just torn it off and kept going- no attribution of their actions.
But, Norway is a major ally vs. Russian/chinee subs— so we will probably be paying for the nets to be replaces. Law of the Sea, etc.
“What did you catch today Swen?”
“A United States Nuclear Attack Sub.”
“Swen, you drink to much.”
I am sure the US Navy will pay the fisherman for his nets and lost catch. They should.
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