It's a memorial and a grave yard.
The battleship USS Arizona I think.
Not soo funny...

I did not mean it as a joke. Just curiouse.

Legitimate question, no offense taken.
Amazing how many visitors to Honolulu/Pearl Harbor DON'T know what that white thing in the water by Ford Island is....

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

[edit} Darn, these Forums are slow and fussy tonight.
Third double post in 10 minutes....

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I know. I have to stop myself from double posting too.

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[edit} Darn, these Forums are slow and fussy tonight.
Third double post in 10 minutes....

Donald. I think you could be interreseted in this from the Russian Navy.
We Swedes love Russian subs:)

We are glad to offer you novels by the most famous Russian submariner Alexander Pokrovsky, who is scriptwriter of popular Russian film "72 metra" (72 meters) on struggle for survival in the wrecked sub.

http://rusnavy.com/publications/fiction/pokrovsky/subs/
72 метра https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCIHv_r2do
In the 1980s Soviet Union. Two best friends, Orlov and Muravyev, are serving at the Black Sea Navy Base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Both fall in love with one beautiful girl Nelly, and their friendship suffers a first blow. Because she picks Muravyev, his friend Orlov struggles with an inferiority complex and becomes a secretive alcoholic. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, both friends are transferred to the Northern Fleet on the Polar Ocean. One day their sub is performing a routine training. A disturbed WWII mine slowly moves on a collision course with the sub. A mighty blast knocks down everyone inside the wrecked sub, 72 meters below the sea level. Then ensues a nerve-racking struggle for survival.

The Swedish and Russian flags when the russian corvette Steregusjtjij was anchored in the inlet to Stockholm.

I was going to watch the flick, but it is in Russian....LOL.
Not my second language.

I wonder, was it released in an English translation?

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Donald. I think you could be interreseted in this from the Russian Navy.
We Swedes love Russian subs:)

We are glad to offer you novels by the most famous Russian submariner Alexander Pokrovsky, who is scriptwriter of popular Russian film "72 metra" (72 meters) on struggle for survival in the wrecked sub.

http://rusnavy.com/publications/fiction/pokrovsky/subs/
72 метра https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwCIHv_r2do

Yes, and Russian submarines seem to like to visit Swedish waters..

Been awhile since I've seen those boats.......
Bookmarked it. I don't speak Russian, either, but will go back and watch it when I have time.

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

I was going to watch the flick, but it is in Russian....LOL.
Not my second language.
I wonder, was it released in an English translation?

Russian movies are in Russian usually.
In this case even Ukrainian since it happens both in Crimea Ukraine and Murmansk Russia:)
But the novels are in English.
http://rusnavy.com/publications/fiction/pokrovsky/subs/

Yes, and Russian submarines seem to like to visit Swedish waters..

Perhaps they have good reason to. What are the Swedes up to that needs keeping an eye on?

Sweden does build and operate some very capable non-nuclear submarines. The US Navy rented the HMS Gotland for two years to train both surface ships and nuclear submarines in anti-submarine warfare. And my San Diego Shipmates tell me that, with female Officers and Ratings onboard, that boat was very popular when in port....

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Donald
Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired

Yes, and Russian submarines seem to like to visit Swedish waters..

Perhaps they have good reason to. What are the Swedes up to that needs keeping an eye on?

Sweden does build and operate some very capable non-nuclear submarines. The US Navy rented the HMS Gotland for two years to train both surface ships and nuclear submarines in anti-submarine warfare. And my San Diego Shipmates tell me that, with female Officers and Ratings onboard, that boat was very popular when in port....

Only two years ago Sweden and Russia was training anti-submarine warfare together:)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSwMS_Gotland_(1995)
Gothus sum, cave cornua (I am a Gothlander, watch out for the horns)

Yes, and Russian submarines seem to like to visit Swedish waters..

Perhaps they have good reason to. What are the Swedes up to that needs keeping an eye on?

Sweden does build and operate some very capable non-nuclear submarines. The US Navy rented the HMS Gotland for two years to train both surface ships and nuclear submarines in anti-submarine warfare. And my San Diego Shipmates tell me that, with female Officers and Ratings onboard, that boat was very popular when in port....

Swedish females, no less. Yeah, I bet it was popular.

[Flashback to the Night Court where Dan was dating the two Swedish women, and at the end, they said, "Ve have to tell you something." "Yes?" "Ve used to be... men." "AAAAAAHHH!!!!!!"]

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

Yes, and Russian submarines seem to like to visit Swedish waters..

Perhaps they have good reason to. What are the Swedes up to that needs keeping an eye on?

Sweden does build and operate some very capable non-nuclear submarines. The US Navy rented the HMS Gotland for two years to train both surface ships and nuclear submarines in anti-submarine warfare. And my San Diego Shipmates tell me that, with female Officers and Ratings onboard, that boat was very popular when in port....

Swedish females, no less. Yeah, I bet it was popular.

[Flashback to the Night Court where Dan was dating the two Swedish women, and at the end, they said, "Ve have to tell you something." "Yes?" "Ve used to be... men." "AAAAAAHHH!!!!!!"]

Swedish females....................oh, f/

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Swedish females....................oh, f/

What? I meet them every day:)

+100 Ian and Donald.

We over the pond in the UK fully realise and appreciate how much the history of Pearl Harbour means to you guys. Our own WWII equivalent was probably the loss of HMS Hood.

Hood Bell

Not quite, the Hood was lost in battle. Our WWII equivalent would have been this

Swedish females....................oh, f/

What? I meet them every day:)

I do not....................LOL.
I have made a pass or two at some here............
There are no finer.

Now let's drop that..........I wish my fun could be considered as just that.

I don't wish to take any others's ladies, unless they would have me.
I suspect none of them want me............

But;, perhaps...............some do.

I have a following here.

Some love me, some hate me........hard to sort who or why.

It all works, if you give it a chance.

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Swedish females....................oh, f/

What? I meet them every day:)

I do not....................LOL.

Hehehe.

On the other hand Frida is a norwegian.
Her father was a german soldier and was stationed in Norway during WWII.
Its a small world:)

Is it me or has the Canadian population of the cafe increased since I was last here? :)

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This thread reminds Me of this Quote, from Batman in 1989.

Joker: As though we were made for each other... Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out.

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