Daily submarine picture

[Von Hilde]

The vessel is in the Borei's leeward, at least 20kt wind, by the looks of the flags, and has cast off, and backing up. Seas are a moderate chop, and those two heavy vessels wouldnt move up and down much. The sub is solid and not moving up and down at all due to the displacement of the boat is 2/3ds underwater and un effected by the surface chop. The surface water on the port side of the sub is as calm as a lake on a summer day for about 50 yards. If they were approaching, there would be bubblehead line handlers on deck. Bow line of the ship is aboard and not stowed, as you can see by the bite on the line hanging over the top of the rail. The deckhands are removing the spring line from the bollards and begining to flake the line. They have to get that line aboard before its foweled in the screws. You wouldnt be able to see the fenders, since they would be on the port beam at the waterline of the supply ship. The bow of the ship is convex and narrow at the waterline and alot further from the sub than it appears. Its a long way down and aft of the foredeck The deck of the ship is level wih the top of the tower, so perspective is missleading. Wide angle lense on the camera, adds to the illusion. I have been in that situation before, in a small boat about the size of that big windless when I was in the Navy. Standerd procedure. "Dont Pee into the wind" I have an OUPV up to 100 tons as well. Thats a Captains Licence for vessels under 65ft.

[reddevil]

Delta snowed humpback pic is delicious. Regarding to fenders, during my merchant navy service I performed replenishments at sea, both on the way and at anchor all over the world. I've seen fenders made from giant minning truck wheels, airplane undercarriage wheels, siene nets bouys in bunches, and so on, and also have used "yokohamas" (the big black sausages). Depending upon the shape of ships involved, sometimes ones worked better than others. Quite curious when a yokohama fender explodes due to enormous pressure tween hulls. Anyway, a quite risky bussiness in some places. Regarding to subs, I completely agree with Mr. D.

[greenman407]

Another Delta

[greenman407]

My years of boating have taught me about fenders.The up and down motion so common to boaters will also move your carefully placed fenders aside or up out of the way and smash..........crash.......scrub........rub....... .scratch

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Tooo tooo close. They'll have had to rig a lot of fenders alongside.

Another good reason to build your boats with a double-hull!

M

[reddevil]

Tooo tooo close. They'll have had to rig a lot of fenders alongside.

[greenman407]

Interesting view of the new Borei

[KevinMc]

Confirmed - That's undoubtedly a Delta IV.

One way to tell is by looking at the safety track(s) on the missile deck: Delta III has a pair of tracks that run through the middle of the missile hatches. (As shown in Mark's photo above.) This photo shows a single safety track that runs down the deck between the hatches - one of the distinctive tells that it's a Delta IV.

[Peter W]

Delta IV or III ? I'll go IV. I like the blue bridge. also on this one.



Peter

[greenman407]

Ive been looking for years for this picture but in a bigger picture. Here it finally is.

[greenman407]

What lovely shots. Thank you so much for sharing.

M

Yes! Thanks modelnut! I saved most of them.

[Von Hilde]

Romeo High Resolution picture.
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note the rotor wash from the photo helo, and all the guys holding on to their hats. That cruise was a propaganda photo op. Boat never submerged and never left sight of shore.

[HardRock]

Don't think that there is enough room on top of the SD to allow them to move more than an inch and a half.

[type7]

You could mount the scopes to a thin sheet and attach foam to the bottom of the sheet. The scopes will come up when the sub submerges.

[HardRock]

A new question. Have you considered making the periscopes retractible? I can't figure it out. There doesn't seem to be enough room to do it with the 3.5" sub driver on place. Thoughts?