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Subject: They're that good?
Shirrush    5/26/2009 3:56:29 PM
Today's story in the local news (Israel):
 
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Shirrush       5/26/2009 4:58:36 PM
(Translated and slightly edited for syntax and consistency- Shirrush)
A swimmer drowns, an IN submarine rescues him
 
Tuesday, May 26th 2009, 16:33. From: Joshua Bryner, Walla News Editorial Board.
 
The submariners identified the swimmer 5 km off Haifa as he was displaying signs of distress.
The man was hauled aboard and transfered to the hospital.
 
The submarine INS Leviathan rescued today noon (Tuesday), a swimmer who was about to drown in the Haifa Bay, at a distance of about 5km from the shore.
 
At around noon, the IN submarine, which was located some eight km offshore, detected a swimmer in an advanced state of exhaustion. The sub's sailor reached the man and took him on board, where he was given medical attention by the boat's medic.
 
Concomitally, a Navy craft was summoned, which took the swimmer ashore, whence he was taken to Haifa's RaMBa"M hospital. The IDF praised the action of the submariners who saved the man's life.
 
The submarine's comms officer, First Lieutenant A., told Walla News: "I was on the bridge when I started  hearing strange noises at a range of 5 meters from us. I immediately understood that these could not logically be interpreted as watercraft sounds, and then I saw the man calling for help. We sounded the emergency alarm and sailed towards him until we were close enough to throw him a rescue buoy and a ladder which enabled him to clamber aboard" According to A., the thirthy-something swimmer went for a swim at eight in the morning and he reported being in the water for at least four hours.
 
 "He was found suffering from hypothermia and he was very confused. We took him to a restricted space on the sub, where the medic found his body temperature to be (as low as) 35oC. He was given blankets, warm tea and food. he was wearing swimming trunks, so we could assume from a distance, from his appearance, that he was nothing hostile. Also, he had the build of a pretty good swimmer", said A.
 

Well, there are a lot of inconsistencies in this very sloppily-written newsbit. At the beginning, the swimmer was 5km from the shore, and the sub, 8. The bridge officer "heard" the man at a distance of 5 meters...
Since the IN discloses absolutely nothing about the performance and the functionalities of its underwater sensors, could these news be, in fact, an admission that, 1. A sub can detect and characterize a 3-km distant swimmer in choppy seas, and 2. The sonar thingy's console is located 5m from the bridge?

 
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