Steno Pads, Goldfibre, 120 pages, Gregg Ruled. Write your original stuff on the right side of the page, follow ups on the left. Day and date across the full page at the start of each day, highlighted in Yellow.

Been working for me since 1976.

I went to the link you provided and looked at two pages served up by their website and after reading their terms of use I am not so sure that I would trust them for the following reasons:

1. They provide no way to contact them directly from their website and no FAQ. Perhaps they do with their client software but I don't think it is very smart to download and install it blind.

2. In paragraph numbered 1 of their Terms of Use they claim that they have a Privacy Policy because "my privacy is important"and that it is linked from the bottom of each page on their site. Well neither of the pages I viewed had such a link! And, of course, by merely accessing their site I agree to their terms of use including their un-findable and therefore unreadable Privacy Policy.

3. Their Terms of Use also includes language basically designed to prevent the posting of any information critical of the site.

4. Finally their Terms of Use seem to prevent the posting of a url pointing to their site without their express written consent. So, unless you had that when you posted the link you may be in violation of their Terms of Use if you are a user of their site. (Of course, maybe I'm wrong about that portion of their Terms of Use but I don't want to go back to their site and check because I might be correct since I now know what their Terms of Use include and I do not wish to be bound by them.)

Conclusion - probably over-lawyered and sloppy site design, i.e., they haven't followed their own rules. So, why would I want to trust them?

Been there, done that. When you are in your patrol area typically you are making turns for 3 knots or less. If you get a contact you try to avoid it without either leaving your patrol area or being detected yourself.

Occasionally your are either unable to estimate the range to a contact due to a technical reason or sonar just blows the estimate. That's what happened to us. We had him on sonar: a weak sound level with a zero bearing rate -- sonar told us he was far away.

Our collision was with a Russian boat. We had just started to clear baffles to port when he hit us on the starboard side just forward of the sail. He took out all the forward ballast tanks on the starboard side. If we hadn't just started to clear baffles to port he would have T-boned us and it would have been a lot uglier for us.

He had no clue that we were there -- he thought he had hit the bottom (immediately he lit off his fathometer on the short scale) --- the water was 6,000 feet deep. His reactor plant scrammed, he started flooding and had to surface. We just went deep and snuck away.

I know the U.S. boats and systems are much tougher than many think and I am certain the British and French boats are comparable.