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Old 03-15-09, 03:58 AM   #4
Etienne
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Originally Posted by Pablo
The kind of systematic sonar depth mapping that allowed underwater depth maps like the kind you see in the Silent Hunter series was only done long after World War II was over.
And even then, many modern charts use soundings from the 19th century, or soundings from ship's echosounders.

In the later case, you can often clearly see the route the ships took
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