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Russian Submarine Alleged to have Nearly Dragged Trawler to Watery Grave
2015-03-23
[Breitbart London] The crew of a Scottish fishing boat had a lucky escape this week when their vessel narrowly avoided being dragged beneath the waves by an unidentified object caught in their net. The captain of the boat has insisted that the mystery object was a Russian submarine, as there were no British or Nato vessels in the area.

Angus Mcleod and his crew were fishing aboard the Aquarius, a 41 year old wooden vessel on Tuesday. They were about ten miles east of the Butt of Lewis in waters 360 feet deep when something became entangled in one of the ships two trawling nets, pulling it to the fore, the Telegraph has reported.
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  D *** NG, does this mean it wasn't GODZILLA???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2015-03-23 20:09  

#5  Yarrrr! Beware the Butt of Lewis!
Posted by: tu3031   2015-03-23 13:42  

#4  "we're gonna need a bigger boat"
Posted by: Frank G   2015-03-23 11:17  

#3  Not at all impossible - IIRC USS Houston killed a fishing boat that way many years ago.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2015-03-23 10:36  

#2  As a backgrounder: local fishing boats that worked near the travel lanes around Holy Loch and Faslane (Scotland) during the cold war would have an 'axeman' stationed on the trawl deck, to cut the line if it suddenly snapped taunt, the theory being they'd snagged a nuke sub going the other way.
Posted by: ed in texas   2015-03-23 07:41  

#1  Been there, done that.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839   2015-03-23 05:00  

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