Am always careful with first person accounts. Comparing the patrols narrated by Herbert Werner in Iron Coffins with the historical records of those same patrols can be instructive.
I got a sense that Calvert tended to trivialize details but its still a good read as you said.
Sometimes authors will write what they expect their audiance to see and when people think of submarines they automatically think 'Ping' even if they have no idea what a 'Ping' might represent.
On the other hand it's possible that constant active searching was doctrinal for the areas that Jack operated in.
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