Andy Dinsdale – Periscope not working. No, it’s night time Sir

I remember one situation where we’d sort of been down for a while. planned to go back up to periscope depth and we knew where we were obviously.

We said, “Right, the time of the day it is it’s going to be dark when we get up there so it’s going to be … I can’t remember where it was there now, trying to think of the story … well we thought it was going to be sort of daylight, and came back up to periscope depth and literally the Captain or the Watch Leader sort of raised the periscope and said, “DWO, periscopes not working, what’s going on?” “It’s dark outside” (laughs) so he totally got it wrong, got the sort of wrong time of day and things and it was just that.

We’d got it wrong. But it’s the classic thing, “Periscopes not working.” “Periscopes fine sir, there’s nothing wrong with the periscope, it’s just dark out there.”