Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: SSN's in the Gulf? Message-ID: <1991Feb4.065740.21859@cbnews.att.com> Date: 4 Feb 91 06:57:40 GMT References: <1991Jan19.043001.6065@cbnews.att.com> <1991Jan27.115512.1411@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) PAISLEY%auvm.auvm.edu@VM1.gatech.edu writes: From > I am not sure about this, but it was my understanding that the water > in the Gulf was too shallow for Submarines, which usually like 400+ > feet of water in which to operate. My common sense says they were > probably outside the Gulf itself. While a submarine is giving away its primary defense, going deep and quiet, by operating in shallow water, and one has to be a little chary about sliding the cooling water intakes into the mud, it is possible to fight a submarine on the surface in well under fifty feet of water, and submerged (with inconvenience) in under a hundred. Kent, the man from xanth. -- Former MT1(SS), USN.