GR translation: Bakerbakerbaker!

[James Kyllo]

I've found the following in the search within of a book called
"Seventy Years of Exploration in Oceanography"

"We had arranged four semaphore flag signals:

ABLE ABLE ABLE Destructive tsunami Pacific Ocean
BAKER BAKER BAKER Destructive tsunami Marshall Islands
CHARLIE CHARLIE CHARLIE minor tsunami
DOG DOG DOG no tsunami"

(at the time of the bomb testing at Bikini Atoll in 1952,
interestingly but probably irrelevantly)

so - I think the somebody in sonar may be reporting a signal received
in a prearranged code.

J



On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Mike Jing
<gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand the phonetic alphabet part.  It is the why that I'm wondering
> about.
>
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> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 5:02 AM, James Kyllo <jkyllo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It'll mean B B B from the phonetic alphabet  (don't know why though)
>>
>> see the RAF and US designations in the chart 3/4 of the way down here:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
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>> J
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet
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>> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Mike Jing
>> <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > V389.9-14  (P395.19-24)   “Bakerbakerbaker!” hollers somebody down in
>> > Sonar,
>> > loud and scared, over the phones. It means hostile torpedo on the way.
>> > Coffee messes go crashing, parallel rulers and dividers sliding across
>> > the
>> > glass top of the dead-reckoning tracer as the old tin can goes heeling
>> > over
>> > around onto an evasion pattern that was already obsolete during the
>> > Coolidge
>> > administration.
>> >
>> > Any idea where this designation for torpedo might come from?  Simple
>> > Googling yielded this:
>> >
>> > http://deansgarage.com/2011/electric-baker-torpedo-racers/
>> >
>> > Not sure if it has any relevance.
>> >
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