It's sunday afternoon, bright sunny day. Fresh smell of sea breeze, the ship is rolling slightly. Men are working here and there and chatter around the deck is heard.
BAM. A shudder can be felt thru the ship. BAM. I walk over to the lifeline and have a look.
Small russian fishing trawler just rammed us. This is a russian Liman class agmr intelligence gathering vessel hasseling us at sea for the second time this weekend and off in the distance about a half mile is a second similar vessel. I am on the USS Proteus AS19 a submarine tender from Guam. We have come out to sea to dump effluente. Radioactive waste from nuclear powered submarines.
The trawlers picked us up early saturday morning and have been tailing us since. They have come along side and we have turned on the fire hoses and given them a shower, which they very much appreciated. We have dumped all of our kitchen garbage on their decks, which they probably also appreciated for the food scraps. We have also done some nasty toilet things on their decks. We have armed men keeping close watch on their activities. There doesn't appear to be any weapons in view on their ship.
This continues for the next half hour or so before they pull away. I return to radio central and put on a set of head phones, plug into a r1051 radio receiver tuned to a common frequency and listen to the russian chatter. None of which I understand but it is interesting to listen to. This scenario has happened many times when we go to sea.
BAM. A shudder can be felt thru the ship. BAM. I walk over to the lifeline and have a look.
Small russian fishing trawler just rammed us. This is a russian Liman class agmr intelligence gathering vessel hasseling us at sea for the second time this weekend and off in the distance about a half mile is a second similar vessel. I am on the USS Proteus AS19 a submarine tender from Guam. We have come out to sea to dump effluente. Radioactive waste from nuclear powered submarines.
The trawlers picked us up early saturday morning and have been tailing us since. They have come along side and we have turned on the fire hoses and given them a shower, which they very much appreciated. We have dumped all of our kitchen garbage on their decks, which they probably also appreciated for the food scraps. We have also done some nasty toilet things on their decks. We have armed men keeping close watch on their activities. There doesn't appear to be any weapons in view on their ship.
This continues for the next half hour or so before they pull away. I return to radio central and put on a set of head phones, plug into a r1051 radio receiver tuned to a common frequency and listen to the russian chatter. None of which I understand but it is interesting to listen to. This scenario has happened many times when we go to sea.