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They discuss the status of a past torpedo incident. The officers say, “at least nine torpedoes in the water. All missed.” They quickly hedge on the precision of engagement numbers, noting, “we’d have to check it out here,” and that “many of the reported contacts and torpedoes fired appeared doubtful.” They propose possible explanations, including “freak weather effects on radar and overeager sauna men may have accounted for many reports.” The speaker then says, “I’ll tell mister Mike Merritt then. That’s the best I can give you, Dave. Sorry.” He adds, “It does appear now that a lot of these torpedo attacks were from the sonar man, you see, and they get keyed up to a thing like this. Everything they hear on the sonar is torpedo.” When asked directly, “You're pretty sure there was a torpedo attack then?” the response is, “Oh, no doubt about that. Yeah. I think. No doubt about that.” Then Speaker 1 counters, “No. It was just confusion.” He continues, “And events afterwards showed that our judgment that we'd been attacked that day was wrong.”