Shallow water
 

I started play SH3 and noticed that pretty much all the water between France, England and I believe Germany is extremely shallow, is this normal? I don't remember it being like that is SH4.

The average depth of the North Sea is around 90 meters. The souther portion, between England, France and Germany, is not that deep.
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/atl...ub.asp?id=1015
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/infopage/northsea.htm

It's a dangerous place for u-boats.

Roger, roger...

Welcome aboard. Because of the water's depth, I'd head to the Western coast of Europe. Its deeper plus that's where the convoys travel.

Stay away from the shallows! One of the key weapons of a U-boat is the ability to dive deep and stay silent hopefully avoiding being crushed by the water pressure or hit by DC's.

Late war, shallow water is the best place to end a career quickly.

Yes, it's really like that in real life. It's not called the "continental shelf" for nothing. Europe is a shelf of land in the sea. Also, if you remember the Zeebrugge disaster, the ferry sank and rested on the bottom, but was still sticking halfway out the water. The water depth was only 20 metres there. And lastly, if you take a ferry across the English Channel you can tell it's shallow by the fact that the water isn't even blue...it's brown. :up:

Another good example is the British battlecruiser HMS Invincible at Jutland with the bow and stern sections grounded on the bottom of the shallow North Sea before sinking.

http://www.periscopepublishing.com/i...lves%20001.JPG

Oh, I see, I thought it was brown from all the French people using it as a toilet.:har:

How vewy wude, you spoiled English-person! I faht in you're general direction!

LOL :DL

Good to see someone knows a good movie :) haha :yeah:

:rotfl2: Have'n't heared that in a while!

There were words that came with the truth,
 

Late war, shallow water is the best place to end a career quickly.[/QUOTE] exact as it is, shallow water is definitely not your best friend,Avoid and make sure you have room for a attack,I recently visited the Grid AN81 and where it was 15m below the keel, which is no margin to speak of, certainly in November 1939 when it crosses a lot of ships, so I felt that the risk was small for any DD coming near me.

I had a fun time when I was attacking a V&W DD it sunk me but the water was only 40m deep, an 1 hour later I pop up fire an eel at him. It went up his aft destroying the ship.
(I'm proud of that one first warship kill for the career and first kill with manual aiming)

The really shallow water is found at the inlet to a particular English port (southern coast). If I had found anything of value to sink there it would have been worth all the dents I put in the hull trying to find deeper part of the inlet. :nope:

Now imagine if you will: you are working on the docks that morning and you keep hearing these strange noises emanating up out of the water every so often. *BOOOONNGG!* *BOOONNGG* *SSSCCRRREEEEECH* *BOOONNGG*

Yeah, that was my Uboat making all that noise. :shifty: