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Originally Posted by updraught
You've been watching too many of those American WW2 war films:
"The diving alarm is sounded twice to signal a dive and three times for emergency surfacing, and is accompanied by either the announcement "dive, dive" or "surface, surface, surface." The alarm is usually described as "ah-OOG-ah." On early submarines, it was an actual motor-driven vibratory horn (called a klaxon after the popular Klaxon Horn used on automobiles"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarms...ed_States_Navy |
Nope, that's not it. actually I had never related the submarine alarm with an ahoogah horn until it was mentioned here. Seems silly that I missed it now though..... DUH. Makes me wonder why a klaxon horn was on my model A bought in northern Alberta now. Were they perhaps used on Canadian built cars??. My Delivery is canadian made.