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From: v059l49z@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: SUBS SINK TRAWLERS
Message-ID: <1990Dec13.034559.20972@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 13 Dec 90 03:45:59 GMT
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From: v059l49z@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy)

In article <1990Dec12.032349.11731@cbnews.att.com>, swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams) writes...
>From: swilliam@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Williams)
>>On november 22nd, the trawler Antares caught a sub in its nets, and
>>was pulled under. The four crewmen paid ''the catch'' with their lives.
> 
>>I find it very absurd and unreal; The fishermen catch a 'big fish' and they
>>get pulled under.
> 
>>* Would this also happen with American subs?

I was reading in a magazine I got a few months ago about one of our subs in
WWII getting caught in a Japanese net.

They had been sitting on the bottom (for whatever reason) when a Japanese
fishing boat passed over them and hooked them.  The fishing boat started
dragging them backwards slowly for a time.  The captain of the sub was trying
to decide if the fishermen knew what they had caught.  They finally decided
to give the sub full power and managed to escape (I believe they broke 
through the net).




				Paul "Joe Friday" Stacy