If they put a soundman on my boat that cant even get a simple depth reading I sure as hell make him cry and send him packin ! :shifty:

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Stop that! People in the library are looking at me funny!:oops:

I'd think you'd be used to that by now. :O:

Brilliant!

Danke. But I feel I must share some of the credit with the navigator's bum, which I've always considered a source of great inspiration. :O:

Ok. Time to come clean. They modeled the navigator after me.

wtf?! Is SH5 a U-boat sim or a fantasy rpg? :arrgh!:

The instrument you referre to I believe is called the echolot (sp). It is an device that is operated by THE NAVIGATOR, not the hydrophone operator.

On the boat it is located above the navigator's position and looks like a black dial with a white concentric ring.

The device was like a small active sonar set, but pointed down. There was no head set like the ones found on the hydrophone set. Instead the instrument fired a ping straight down, and measure the amount of time it took for a return. Then a pointer in the circle would orient itself to the determined depth under keel.

All U-boats had this.

Key point, it was used by the navigator, not the sound man.

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Haha, thats hilarious!
I for one will add a psychologist with a major in bum-patting to the crew.

Pics or it didn't happen. :O:

I don't know, I haven't bought it yet.

I'm only here for the lulz. :O:

it appears to be an undocumented key, CCIP has it in his keyboard command mod in the SH5 mod forum.

Question: I am using ddrgn's keymap mod at the moment which maps depth under keel to SHIFT-N. it works because I can clearly hear a ping, but I can't seem to find the depth somewhere. any ideas?

Try restarting your campaign. What you should hear the guy reporting, the ping and see the report `depth under keel is XXX meters`on your message screen.

will do! thanks.

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Yup, did the trick. Thanks again.

Uh, shouldn't this work without restarting the campaign? Not a very good sign for modding if it doesn't.

They had charts back then you know. Why doesn't the map show it or press a key and it shows depth at the cursor or a number tucked away on the screen that shows deph at cursor location.

I dunno, I always figured that since the necessary equipment was actually on WWII uboats, that's how they did it then, with the Echolot, so it's something that's reflected in the game. I don't know that they even had accurate and complete depth charts for all the bodies of water they operated in.

In real life I would expect the sounding to also be used as navigation tool which can be checked against the charts in order to help determine position. Just like an altimeter is helpfull when navigating on land in hilly areas. They didn't have any INS nor GPS back then :88)