Icebergs?
 

I notice that icebergs are in the roster, but i've never seen one in-game.
I've heard a bit about them but never got a straigh yes/no answer.
Thanks :)

There are icebergs in the sim, but only a small token number so they're hard to find. If the game tried to load as many bergs as there are really out there in the Arctic, it would crash most systems.

Yeh, you'd need a real 'Titanic' rig...

Hur hur hurr...

There are indeed icebergs and sometimes you can see the whales swimming around them....in SH3 GWX.

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Did someone say Titanic ?

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They are there my watch crew did not spot them till we where 50mts away i think his name was Bernard:doh:, ended up with severe flooding and had to limp back to base.

in the single missions (GWX) there is at least one with a lot of ice in it. :D

Oh i saw a couple of icebergs allready (why did u call them icebergs? if i took the german word Eisberg the exact translation must be something like icemountain) but i never saw whales arround (GWX 3Gold ofc).
I hear them at the hydrophone but never saw some.

'Iceberg!! Right ahead!!!'

'Forget that Lightoller, someones nicked one of our funnels....'

Is that your sub right in front of her? I'm beginning to think she wasn't sunk by an iceberg :D

Deadliest Catch: Alaskan Storm baby! :rock:

Icebergs
 

When patrolling way up north I have seen a few. Funny thing is they tend to come up on the hydrophones as a very slow moving vessel like 1-2knots. Before I realized what they were I would intercept these contacts and find myself face to face with an ice mountain. Weird. Also, via the hydrophones I will hear "biologicals" very near these bergs. Whales I suppose....:hmmm:

Now, see... folks on your end of the spectrum have had that experience with this sim. I'm always too busy trying (and mostly faltering) to rack up tonnage. Should I stop to smell the roses once in awhile? :hmmm:

The iceberg thing is a myth and let the truth now be known that it was indeed a German sub that sent her to the bottom. :yep::yep:

Ah! Thanks for the wiki link, that makes sense now.... the word "berg" came from the Dutch.

Does anyone know if one can safely dive below them?

It's something I always wondered, but afraid to "seek the truth" about.

Not sure if it's the lame difficulty settings I have in place when I play SH3 (I'm at a whopping 3% :rock:), but I can still use my periscope when submerged below periscope depth. *shrug* Dunno. Do higher difficulty settings cause seal blowouts at depths much greater than periscope depth (as in DW)?

If not, then by all means raise that periscope when you dive to the great dark depths of the sea and observe the icebergs as you majestically careen off of their underwater projections (or not... you most probably are a much better skipper than I). :DL


On a sidenote, I love DW's High Frequency sonar at the 'scope.