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Kapitan · 01-31-10, 05:52 PM

Ive been reading about the squat effect basically when a vessel enters a shallow at speed an area of low pressure is created underneath the hull and makes the ship sink lower than expected.
other than making the ship sit lower in the water it adversly effects the handling of the vessel as well, and this squat effect was the cause of the capsize of the heral of free enterprise in zeebrugge in 1987.
Reading into it more and more i can only think this effect isnt modeled in game?

Does anyone have anyother information about shallow water "squat" effect ?

and anyone know if its modeled in game?

01-31-10, 05:52 PM	#1
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	question: "Squat effect" (shallow water effect) Ive been reading about the squat effect basically when a vessel enters a shallow at speed an area of low pressure is created underneath the hull and makes the ship sink lower than expected. other than making the ship sit lower in the water it adversly effects the handling of the vessel as well, and this squat effect was the cause of the capsize of the heral of free enterprise in zeebrugge in 1987. Reading into it more and more i can only think this effect isnt modeled in game? Does anyone have anyother information about shallow water "squat" effect ? and anyone know if its modeled in game? __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/