Hard to believe they would be stupid enough to try it. Bubbles are real bad if you are trying to be quiet.
Um, no..
Even the Razorback had the (at the time, new) prairie masker system which generated those microscopic bubbles to quiet the noise.. It worked too.
We were on training ops outside SD with some destroyers and it was getting close to the end. They had little trouble tracking us for the most part (WWII subs are NOT really quiet) and the Cap'n wanted to get home and have a brewski - so he gave the order to fire up the masker.
All of sudden we 'disappeared' from those destroyers, surfaced just outside 1-SD when they were still 50+ miles out and tied up an hour later.. Them destroyer boys were pizzed. We weren't 'supposed to do that'..
Cap'n basically said, "tough chit"...
