I don't think this was realistic at all. Game limitation (developmental oversight) for sure.
The sonar crew would be concentrated on his job the whole time, allowing his ear and mind to tune to the noise in his earphones. Whereas the commander would have no time to do this. He has the rest of the boat to supervise. Last week I watched a video on Youtube (link was given not long ago here) where a german commander (iirc) said they could hear on the order of 100km with the passive hydrophone. It would be great if the 34km could be extended in a mod but I understand it is a limitation of the game. Otherwise it would have been done by now.
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