HELP

[Jmack]

I NEED TO KNOW THE DEPTH OF THIS COORDENATES IN THE MED

37 07N 04 38E


i mean the real thing

[3Jane]

If you mean in relation to SHIII, I'm not sure if the game models such things except in broad generality. I don't think currents are modeled at all.

[Jmack]

i mean the real thing the depth on those coordenates
anyone ?

[Letum]

Why? .................

[_Seth_]

Captain Marcus Grepne. Akabahra served as military transport for Operation Torch. On Jan. 7-1943 she was in station No. 45 (54?) in Convoy KMS 6, on a voyage from Algiers to Bone, having departed Algiers that same morning with a cargo of railroad tracks and crossties as well as misc. food stuffs. That afternoon the convoy was attacked by around 15 aircraft, and she was hit by a torpedo on the port side, probably in the boiler room and started to sink right away (37 07N 04 38E). The port lifeboat was destroyed in the explosion, but the starboard boat was successfully launched, while 4-5 crew members jumped overboard and were later picked up by this boat. An attempt to get one of the rafts out failed as it got caught, but the aft raft was put on the water with 9 men. The captain placed himself in the motor lifeboat which floated free as the ship sank after about 10-12 minutes. All 25 survived and were picked up by the escort vessel HMS Bicester (S.W.F.B. Bennets) which also picked up some of the survivors from the British Benalbanach, a victim of the same attack with the loss of 417 men (she had 389 troops on board, cargo of explosives, MT and petrol). They were landed in Bone on Jan. 8. From http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/akabahra.html
And also, as Letum asks....Why...?

[Jmack]

lol ... a boat sunk there

[_Seth_]

lol ... a boat sunk there
Did it have anything valuable onboard?

[Jmack]

thats it ... a friend wants to know if its diveable

[Jmack]

no no ... a friend knows a surviver of the boat in question

[Jmack]

http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/akabahra.html

i believe that the person that my friend knows is Gunnar Knudsen
wich is 87 or 97 years old cant really remenber

[_Seth_]

http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/akabahra.html

i believe that the person that my friend knows is Gunnar Knudsen
wich is 87 or 97 years old cant really remenber
Ok, i understand! I havent been able to figure out the depth of this place, but i will continue searching, mate!

[U56]

Best I can make out from the coordinates, 37 07N 04 38E is about 12 to 15 Nautical Miles off the coast of Algeria somewhat to the West of the city of Bejaia. This would tie in with a convoy leaving Algiers for Bone (Now known as Annaba). Without access to maritime charts of the area, I can only guess rather inaccurately from my world atlas at the colour coding for the depth off the coast, and it looks like 100-500 metres depth. All that area of Algeria seems to shelve off fairly quickly to deep water. Hope this helps some until you get more accurate info.

Regards

[Jmack]

the encarta charts make 50 to 200 ... or 200 to 2000 ... thats a bit vague

[U56]

I think I have a reasonably good answer for you:D . Dangerous Waters has reasonably accurate seafloor topography modelled in it. It shows depth at 37 07N 04 38E as circa 7600-7900 feet.

Regards

[Jmack]

7600 feets ... that in meters would be something around 2316 meters
humm ... pretty deep

under this is a converter for measurements

http://www.digitaldutch.com/unitconverter/