Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Chazinski, and once again,
we have gathered round the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order, here we go.
Starting with you, James.
Okay, my fact this week is that British warships are so noisy that enemy submarines can hear them from 100 miles away.
What's going on on board these ships?
Disco night.
Yeah, so this basically is the Type 45 destroyer,
and I think we've mentioned them before, they've had a lot of troubles,
they were the ones who broke down in warm water, and they also rattle very loudly,
and they used to stop it by putting little wooden wedges between the hatches,
and that would stop them from rattling,
but they've kind of stopped doing that now just because they've run out of patience,
and now our warships are rattling around the seas,
and anyone who wants to know they're around doesn't even have to use any detection.
Wow, if you're in a submarine, you can't really hear that well underwater.
You can hear better underwater.
No.