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Old 03-11-10, 12:00 PM   #3
Vipper
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Originally Posted by BillCar View Post
I passed through a minefield last night, a couple hundred km off the British east coast. It is possible that you hit a mine. The way to avoid them is to not submerge unless necessary, submerge only in daylight if possible, and use the sun to assist in scanning around your submerged ship with the periscope to see if there are any mines about while you are moving.
Can't look through periscope that way, i use realistic water transparency - some 3 meters. Only thing that will may help me on my next career is map of mined areas. I must have been extremely unlucky if it was a mine cause it was my main spot of waiting and searching enemy ships (1939-early 1940) and i did never hit something there before. Ahh...i wish there is some replay so i can watch what really happened. Whatever it was it totally destroyed forward torpedo room (turned it red), heavily damaged radio room, almost destroyed conning tower etc. etc.
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