Submarine

[Patchman123]

I have discovered another error as well. This error concerns the whole sonar thing and the lack of marine life under the oceans of Silent Hunter IV, even though they didn't really care about the environment, and all that, at least it will be Maru oil spill 1943, and you didn't have bleeding heart jackasses siding with the Japanese saying, they cared more about environment, or useful idiots praising the Emperor, like people do now.

There needs to be more marine life other than seagulls flying in the air. I want to hear dolphins, whales, see fish, sea snakes, and just about everything else in the Pacific marine life. I want to have the Southern Hemisphere more properly synched as time is different in the Southern Hemisphere. Don't the torpedoes spin differently in the Southern Hemisphere? I thought they did. Normally, in the Southern Hemisphere, due to the Coraolis effect, things spin differently that they do in the Northern Hemisphere, which affected torpedo guidance and spinning through the water.

[rein1705]

somebody made a mod that added sharks here while back.... as for the torpedos spinning differently... :hmmm:

[Patchman123]

somebody made a mod that added sharks here while back.... as for the torpedos spinning differently... :hmmm:

Do they? Do they actually spin differently in the Southern Hemisphere?

[rein1705]

I truly dont know but the mechanics of it dont seem like they would. The torpedo's screw still spins the same way it was meant to so the torpedo shouldn't act any different.

[cptroyce]

Water goes down a drain and toilets flush diffenetly in the Southern hemisphere and constellations are different of course as well.
A mechanical screw will turn the way it's built to turn..after all a ship screw doesn't start turning backwards when one crosses the Equator :).

Royce

[Raven79]

Also, time lines run from north to south (that way | ), not west to east (that way - ). :damn:
So Japan and Australia are more or less in the same time zone. Africa and the US are not.
On top of that, SHIV uses Zulu time, which is the time back on a unit's home base. So even if we'd turn the world by 90 degrees to make your statement correct, there still wouldn't be a need to modify time at all.

And yes, mechanical devices do function they way they're supposed to, all around the world and even in space. Be it torpedoes, knives or thrown stones. :stare:

The only point this whole thing does seem to have is the thought of a dolphin mod, based on the shark mod. Just crossed my mind, would be awesome to have some friendly company now and then out there. Wonder if one could make them jump out of the water or accompany the boat for a while, then leave... :hmmm:

(Now someone hand me some meds before I get any impulses out of the thought what all this had to do with "Submarine", please..)

[Urge]

I served on the USS Carp SS338 out of Norfolk in the mid 60s and remember standing lookout while traveling on the surface at full or flank(?) and watching Dolphins come up alongside us from aft. They cruised along with us for awhile occasionally jumping back and forth over the bow until they got bored and then leaving us in their wake. Way cool!

Urge

[rein1705]

would give anything to have been there!

[Rockin Robbins]

Do they? Do they actually spin differently in the Southern Hemisphere?
Actually, the Coriolis Effect, while it does exist, is so weak that it is almost impossible to demonstrate on small systems, especially sinks, toilets and other mythical demonstrators of the Coriolis Effect.

Almost all of the determination of the direction of rotation in draining any kind of small reservoir is from initial conditions: the small but undetectable motion of the water, the shape of the container, etc. In fact all the stuff you've heard about toilets rotating in opposite directions depending on whether they are in the northern or southern hemisphere is nothing but an urban myth.

Here's a website (http://www.ems.psu.edu/%7Efraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html) explaining this in excruciating but highly entertaining detail. Enjoy! Mythbusters also did a show on this.

[vickers03]

I want to hear dolphins,
there are dolphins in TMO and you can pick
them up on sonar.

[Fish40]

The problems concerning the torpedoes in the Southern hemisphere, or actually near the Equator stems from the difference in the Earth's magnetic field at that location. The magnetic detonators on the torpedoes were calibrated in the Northern hemisphere, where they were manufactured. I guess they just assumed the torpedoes work the same in the war zone.:hmmm: