Word: sonarman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school of shrimp sounds like fish frying, that sea robins cluck, that the white whale creaks like the lid on Davy Jones's locker, that the eel makes a zizz like water on a hot stove, and the whistling, jocular porpoise makes enough noise to give any sonarman a headache. Most deceptive of all for Thach's sound detectives are the pings, for all the world like those from submarines, that bounce off sunken wrecks. And for precisely that reason, the wise enemy submariner would be most likely to launch his attack from the area of Cape Hatteras...
Shortly before midnight, the Higbee's sonarman sat up straight before his dials and scopes. Through the earphones came an unmistakable, high-pitched whine. He punched a floor switch with his foot, barked out an electrifying message to the bridge. "Torpedo sounds . . . torpedo sounds...