Unidentified 'submarine' may have been whale

Sunday 21st September, 01:13 PM JST

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Nessie at 11:18 PM JST - 21st September

Sensei, LOL!!!
Sarge at 11:21 PM JST - 21st September

badge123 - That's "Captain, there be whales here!"
Nessie at 11:24 PM JST - 21st September

Nessie escaped from Loch Ness !! That explains the ‘‘periscope-like object’’.

Not only did I escape; I'm happy to see you!

I'm going with Sarge's theory for now, until a more preposterous one comes along.
cwhite at 01:16 AM JST - 22nd September

anyone reckon one could fit an observation room into a whale equipped with state of the art technology?
OssanULTRA at 07:09 AM JST - 22nd September

"Impossible! There haven't been any large whales in the waters around Japan for over a century."

Good attempt at humor but too bad that's completly false. In fact there's even a whale watching industry. If whales around Japan had vanished over a century ago, guess who would have been responsible?
NeoJamal at 07:25 AM JST - 22nd September

anyone reckon one could fit an observation room into a whale equipped with state of the art technology?

It's the Whalenator! I bet it fires cruise missiles from its blow hole.
franz75 at 08:32 AM JST - 22nd September

If they are not able to spot a whale or submarine, Chinese are safe to come and go in Japanese waters as they wish...
soldave at 10:27 AM JST - 22nd September

The MSDF with another classic. People of Japan, it is safe to enter the water again. We have now depth-charged Moby Dick and he will be in school lunches throughout Japan very soon.
Osakadaz at 10:29 AM JST - 22nd September

It would explain it's hasty exit from barbarous Japanese waters. The hunt for red Orca-tober next month.
fatloser at 10:49 AM JST - 22nd September

What part of a whale looks like a periscope?? To a landsman it may seem inconceivable to make such a mistake. BUT to a love-lorn sea captain it makes perfect sense!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fatloser at 10:51 AM JST - 22nd September

HeYYYYYYYYY--Wait a minute!! They advertised that their defenses on the Pacific coast were inadequate and then they disproved their own notion!!!!!!!!!!!
Altria at 02:23 PM JST - 22nd September

They should have torpedoed it either way.
sailwind at 03:15 PM JST - 22nd September

First off as I am more than just a little familiar in the art of searching for submarines. Changing the story from an actual sighting to a whale instead does smack of a little bit of face saving on the part of the Japanese. I believe they did sight an unknown submarine and since they couldn’t identify the culprit, are now using this as a way to try an ease understandable fears of the general public. Which beggars the question, if my hunch is correct, as to who this intruder boat belongs to. I have in-depth knowledge of the submarine capabilities of most all nations, Russia, China, North Korea etc and I’ve done some exhaustive research and that along with my past hands on experience in the ASW (Anti-Submarine Warfare) field and also with a good thorough knowledge of international relations as to who would attempt an intrusion based on the Japan’s international relationships. I have come up with the most plausable explanation. Sure, most folks would look at the usual suspects and would claim China or North Korea or such, those folks with no real knowledge of Naval affairs. Though it is I who has come up with the one and only rational conclusion as to who this sub actually belonged to.

Sweden

The Evidence:

This was a submarine. Sweden has submarines it doesn’t take a super nautical genius such as myself to put two and two together there.

Envy:

The Swede’s have a deep irrational jealous streak when it comes to Japan. So bad their biggest company IKEA is only that way because they have adopted the very Zen simplistic concepts pioneered by the Japanese in the first place in their furniture ideas.

Cuisine Envy:

Sweden also relies on the sea for a good part of her daily nutritional needs, yet instead of creating a fine art such as Sushi with her ocean bounty, she stuffs it into tin cans and then to add insult to injury, then makes it hard to open the darn things with that stupid key they put on the bottom to get the lousy lid off.

Religious Envy:

Sweden has the hall of Vahalla and the Norse Gods, maybe a hundred Gods in total. Japan with it comes to the Kami hanging out at the various shrines all over the country has them beat by at least 10,000 more.

Political Envy;

Sweden has a Democracy hiding a socialist state concept. Japan has a one party state hiding behind a Democracy.

Warrior Envy;

Sure the Swede’s had the Vikings, and they did a pretty good of terrorizing the local European neighborhood for a thousand years or so, but compared to what Japan did in just a few decades……..Please.

Yup, it was the envious Swede’s testing Japan’s defensive capability in some nefarious future invasion plot to regain lost Swedish Viking glory.

Always happy to be of help when it comes to Navy nautical matters on these threads.
cleo at 03:20 PM JST - 22nd September

sailwind -

You . are . a . card

lol

But you forgot to mention the dastardly meatballs.....
Nessie at 04:43 PM JST - 22nd September

If your analysis is correct, Sail, it's not a whale baikingu, but rather a Viking whale.