To the right of that picture is a Navy submarine basin, so it's possible to see a cruise ship, a returning Falcon booster and a nuclear sub in the same shot. Some day we'll probably see one, considering how SpaceX seems to have gotten pretty good at landing on that barge.
Back around 84 or so, my wife and I were fishing the port in my old center console boat. We were out at the jetties near the entrance to the port. Turned around to see a sub on the surface coming into the port. Now I know that thing hadn't surfaced right behind us; the channel is only 40' deep, but it sure did seem to appear out of nowhere!
Unfortunately, while it was always "keep out if a sub is in the basin", the basin has been closed to the public since 9/11. Friends say the vertical walls in that basin used to offer good fishing.
A Youtuber who calls his account Flat Circle History has been producing a series called “The Next World War” for the past year. As of now, there are 22 episodes of 10 to 20 minutes Read more…
I would say that FPSRussia did a fair job of predicting Russian drone warfare, don’t you? I said then, and I still think now, that the ATF wanted his channel off the air, so they Read more…
Talking to people on the Internet, especially on social media, wears you down. Sometimes you get to the point, where you just tire of talking to the morons on there, all of whom are experts Read more…
1 Comment
SiGraybeard · June 6, 2016 at 3:48 pm
To the right of that picture is a Navy submarine basin, so it's possible to see a cruise ship, a returning Falcon booster and a nuclear sub in the same shot. Some day we'll probably see one, considering how SpaceX seems to have gotten pretty good at landing on that barge.
Back around 84 or so, my wife and I were fishing the port in my old center console boat. We were out at the jetties near the entrance to the port. Turned around to see a sub on the surface coming into the port. Now I know that thing hadn't surfaced right behind us; the channel is only 40' deep, but it sure did seem to appear out of nowhere!
Unfortunately, while it was always "keep out if a sub is in the basin", the basin has been closed to the public since 9/11. Friends say the vertical walls in that basin used to offer good fishing.
Comments are closed.