I believe the problem of this mission is that it is not very well designed, i believe you should have a bit more advance on the tanker at the start, while actually you nearly start on the same line.
Basically if you want to save the tanker you need to get ahead of it.
The tanker is speeding at 11 , up to the middle of the escort zone, water depth is no less than 90 (at some point of the mission i forgot to check and hit the ground at depth 58) , you start by cavitating, tha tanker start +/- near you, so you don't even have some advance in the beginning.
To get ahead, you need to speed up, you can't really dive low as the sea floor is very near the surface, so you will cavitate.
Not a problem in the beginning, but after +/- 10 minutes, as the escort zone is short, you will really need to slow down as you enter the dangerous zone.
It is there you have a small margin to detect the enemy subs. If you detect nothing, soon enough the tanker will be at your side and you will hear "torpedo in the water", as the tanker is very noisy.
On my attempt (without SCU/SCX) after reading this thread, i couldn't save the tanker, a "torpedo in the water appeared when we reached +/- the middle of the zone.
I fired a torpedo immediately after the message, as i found the enemy torp on narrowband and so could +/- locate the fire zone.
Enough minutes after, a first explosion, tanker destroyed followed by a second explosion a minute later : a kilo is destroyed.
As i refuse to use the AI crew , having my fun by detecting things myself, i really need some help on saving this tanker.
The sea floor being that near to the surface is really not helping anything.
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