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Originally Posted by I'm goin' down
I finally located a task force in the Battle for Midway after several tries. My boat is a Gato. I took it down to 550 feet eventually because the destroyers were locating the sub at shallower depths. Then I went to 580 feet. It was there a depth charge sunk my boat. Or was it? Maybe it passed crush depth.
I checked the external camera several times to see where the destroyers were. They were either right on my posiitoin are really close.
It is early in the war, June, 1942. I read the sonar and radar tutorials. How can the destroyers find my boat at over 500 feet? I thought I should be safe at over 350 feet? Oh. I run RSRDC over 2.0, if that helps.
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It's TMO, the DD's are tough, esp in calm waters, but are beatable for sure..Crush depth with no hull damage for a Gato is around 598 feet in TMO, at 580 depth charge got you unbless you already had hull damage. I can usually lose even best DD's at 300-350 feet but have been pushed well below 500 feet in a Gato from time to time.
Depth helps in TMO but it isnt the grand solution, takes more than that to get away.