Originally Posted by
awblain
Twitter's all well and good for source material if the ship sails into a harbor within sight of someone who has a Twitter account. It's unlikely that the presence of a Russian submarine at the same location would have appeared on Twitter.
Disingenuous. Read PhonyTony. He didn't say the observer had to be harbour bound.
On one occasion we were alerted by a North Sea helicopter to a camouflaged periscope. The ensuing period was good fun.
Just because a Certsub has to be identified by a qualified observer does not stop qualified observers happening to be on fishing boats and in civil helos. Our fisheries inspector at Kinloss at the time was also a Lt-Cdr RNR and I would guess a few fishermen too were also in the RNR.