Depth under keel
 

Is there a way other than pinging for depth to know depth under keel? Have looked in forum, but not finding anything on this.

click on navigator icon then click on reports then click on depth under keel icon

Right, that's what I've been doing, but that pings for depth, which you may not want to do esp if you know escorts are in the area. SHII had an indicator line on the depth gauge that always showed the bottom depth. Maybe that was a little artificial, but then again U-boats would have had decent chart information showing depths in coastal areas. As it is in SHIII unless you ping for depth, you have no idea as far as I can see.

Depth Under Keel
 

I haven't found another way to check the depth. As in any combat situation, know your surroundings as well as possible. Check the depth often when your sound man indicates no contacts if you are planning on operating in that area.

Usually I Stay in the dark blue water as much as possible. I'm workin on a Depth Average Chart according to the color of blue on the nav map. (i.e.) the lightest color blue on the nav map is usually pretty shallow. Dark Deep and everything else in between

Kerry

Would be nice if someone could mod the nav map.

If it's daytime, i usually use the observation scope to check the sea floor. you can usually get a good idea of how close to the bottom you are with that.

Dive down till you hear a loud noise and your boat stops going down. ;)

That only works with the (unrealistic) stock water. I can't see anything underwater with my scope.

As others have said, take a lot of soundings early on, and try to get assigned to the open ocean, then you'll never have to worry about it.

It works with IUB up to around 80-100 meters at least...

Edit: Actually, I know I've been monkeying around with those files since I've installed IUB, so I don't know which mod it's using, but it is modded... :hmm:

Ahoy, Landlubbers: check this out--

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2557.htm

Regards,

Good find :up:

But, who is Nomans? :rotfl:

Problem is copyright.

In reality, charts don't tend to have too much depth data anyway, even today. The topography of the sea bed is just not that well known. (The USS San Francisco last year is the perfect example). In World War Two, accurate infomation avalable to U-boats would have been limited to the German Coast, with semi-acurate and vague data about the North Sea from about the world war one era.

I'd be keen to see better charts like the rest of you, but i'd also like to keep it real.

its terrible to get caught in shallow water while in transit. I usally wait untill I know a destroyer has detected me if he is coming straight for you at top speed and pinging chances are he knows where your at already. your dead if you do nothing maybe dead if you crash dive run aground, so what do you have to lose. also check depth when being depth charged they cant hear your ping

Followed by a lot of repair work depending on your speed and angle :/\x:

I did it once crashe dived killed two crew :oops: