Mysterious Light: The Solution by sandra46

Photography • Military • posted on Jul 04, 2009

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Only Sig (junge1) went closer to the solution: but it isn't a missile silo. In fact it's the interior of a torpedo launch tube of the submarine HMCS Onondaga, in Rimouski, Quebec. It's been taken from the opening. Here you can see the same shot taken with a tele, zeroing in a buoy.The light at the end of the tube is similar to that they say one sees when is dying .... in this case after being torpedoed! I put three clues, but the most important one was utterly disregarded. It was hidden in open view, in the photo specifications at Genre: Military. So none of you is a spy or a detective. ;D) I'm going to post more images of this old veteran girl. So I'll start her remarkable story here: HMCS Onondaga(S73) is an Oberon-class submarine that served in the Royal Canadian Navy and later the Canadian Forces.It's the longest serving submarine in the Canadian Navy, now at the Musee de la Mer de Pointe-au-Pere in Rimouski, Quebec. Onondaga was laid down on 18 June 1964 at Chatham Dockyard, Chatham, UK and launched on 25 September 1965. She was commissioned into the RCN on 22 June 1967 with pennant number 73. She was decommissioned by Maritime Command on 28 July 2000 as the last CF Oberon class submarine in operation. Onondaga was assigned to Maritime Forces Atlantic (MARLANT) and served her entire career in the North Atlantic. After narrowly avoiding being sold for scrap, the Onondaga was sold to the museum for $4 Canadian plus tax. The submarine has been restored for a reported $2.6 million, and opened to the public in May 2009. The Onondaga was towed from Halifax to Rimouski by way of the Canso Canal in July 2008. The tow was featured in the reality TV show, “Monster Moves.” Badge: Blazon Azure, within a representation of the wampum of the Iroquois nation, another of the head of the mace used at the sitting of the first Parliament of Upper Canada in 1792, both proper. General characteristics Class and type: Oberon-class submarine Displacement: Surfaced: 2,030 t (2,000 long tons) Submerged: 2,410 t (2,370 long tons) Length: 295.25 ft (89.99 m) Beam: 26.5 ft (8.1 m) Draught: 18 ft (5.5 m) Speed: Surfaced: 12 kn (22 km/h) Submerged: 17.5 kn (32.4 km/h) Complement: 69 Sensors and processing systems: Type 187 Active-Passive sonar Type 2007 passive sonar Armament: 8 × 21 in (530 mm) tubes (6 bow, 2 stern), 18 torpedoes

Comments (36)

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MOSKETON

5:12PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

fantasticas imagenes. genial.

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bmac62

5:42PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

I've been fiddling enough with submarines lately...I should have known. Only thing is I haven't had the opportunity to look out through a torpedo tube any time lately:-) I'll look forward to seeing what this looks like from outside too. Good notes.

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Star4mation

5:51PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

Had me fooled Sandra :) Super photos!

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lyron

6:06PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

Great images!!

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pops

6:18PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

You got me-vey cool

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magnus073

6:39PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

Cool one Sandra, I was grasping and would have never guessed

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stevey3d

6:53PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

Ahhh! Superb Sandra! Never would have guessed that!

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brycek

8:48PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

Wonderful images..well done!!

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junge1

9:04PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

Great captures and excellent background information Sandra!

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Minda

9:29PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

excellent capture and great info sandra!!

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auntietk

10:48PM | Sat, 04 July 2009

I'm not surprised Sig came closest! Great shots. :)

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claude19

12:56AM | Sun, 05 July 2009

I think that only a person interested in the military equipment could find answer! In principle nice mystery but here I hate war weapon I suffered World War II, being very small, I was traumatised until the age of 14 years. I am war veteran of the war of Algeria and I brushed the true danger of the mates died on mines with racks I am not sensitive to the army from whatever country it is and in its "working " tools. It was obviously a nice mystery but she was military I had no chance. On the contrary the photo in itself was more poetic in black and white!!! Of course, I do not make you reproaches...

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