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There was a lot of trade and migration up and down the Atlantic coast, so it's not surprising to find DNA connections between Ireland and Spain/Portugal. Especially Basque.

Just as you find bagpipes in Spain.

Missionary catholic priests were an efficient gene distribution system.

How many 'crash into the ocean floor' and are repaired without help? You are an insult to thinking. It may have settled to the ocean floor, but a crash is not at low speed, or without physical damage. I guess your research sub runs on unicorn farts and has a force field for protection. You should get a job as a crash test dummy.

The sub used in these videos is a later class, since all the older class subs had been lost or scrapped. It was explained at some point in the series, that the Navy loaned a working sub to make the two seasons of recreations.

Sure, but that's not the main problem. They said that Vern Skijonsby was the exec during Wahoo's main fighting career, whereas he only joined for the last two patrols that tragically accomplished little, on account of the torpedo problems. Dick O'Kane's contribution was minimized--he was just a 'former exec' rather than half of the team that demonstrated how to fight a fleet boat in a real shooting war. (He went on to win the Congressional Medal of Honor in his own boat, the Tang, which was tragically sunk with great loss of life by a defective torpedo that made a circular run and sank her.

And the worst of it was that they left out the story of those iterated torpedo failures and the shameful attempt by the Naval Torpedo Station and the stateside brass tried to whitewash it. It was only Admiral Lockwood that got to the bottom of it by staging well-publicised tests of the depth-keeping mechanism and the magnetic and contact exploders, all three of which were grossly at fault.

So I wasn't impressed at all.

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Phil Hobbs

PS: The story of how the US position on submarine warfare changed 180 degrees between WW1 and WW2 is a fascinating example of the collapse of our civilization that began in 1914 and, alas, is now essentially complete. See "Execute Against Japan" by Joel Holwitt.

It was "settled to the bottom" and now it's "crash into the ocean floor" why the change? are you asking about something different?

crash is unintended impact at any speed.

Moron. She never said that she did the repairs, and I have no problem with smart women. I would certainly rather talk to a smart woman than an idiot like you who projects your shortcomings on everyone else. The way she spoke, it was no big deal. If it wasn't a big deal, then they had no problem. Navy ships had a small machine shop to repair or make replacement parts. How much space and weight are used for tooling and repair parts on a research sub? My 'problem' with the promo is that it implies that it is really easy to learn any of those areas. If it were, there would be no shortage of students in any of theme, regardless of gender. I've worked with women who were EEs, and our lead CAD tech was a woman. In fact, she was still teaching the man who worked with her to do cleaner schematics, and board layouts. I showed her how to adjust the size of .svg footprints in ,pdf datasheets to actual size, instead of creating them from scratch.

Hell will freeze over before, you learn to be polite.

The promo stated crashed, I was thinking about the difference and typed the wrong comment. The VA has canceled all nn emergency surgery again, so I will have to wait even longer for my cataract surgery.

For the better part of a half-century most of the British Isles were ruled by the Norse:

Dark hair was common among Vikings:

The episodes are about a group of missions, or a single mission. Not the entire history of a sub. Later episodes covered the defective torpedoes, and what was done to prove they were defective. If you want to judge the entire series on one episode, that's your business.

Book, The Bravest Man.

Apparently the NTS also deleted the circular-run preventer mechanism.

They also only test fired two of that series of torpedos before committing to the design, and one failed. Furter tested was considered, 'Too expensive', but their decision caused us to lose both lives and submarines.

I have it, but it's mainly sourced from O'Kane's memoirs ('Wahoo' and 'Clear the Bridge') and Forest Sterling's "Wake of the Wahoo".

He sure was a brave guy, no doubt whatsoever.

Yup.

Other great reads are Eugene Fluckey's 'Thunder Below' and (on another topic) Edward Layton's "And I Was There" about the Pearl Harbor codebreakers.

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Phil Hobbs

Nah, I mostly judge them by their being videos, which I cordially dislike. (I haven't watched movies or TV in many years.)

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Phil Hobbs