[Major Johnson]

Sounds to me like you're doing everything right, but are you in silent running mode?? That's a definite must! As for wihich direction to go, I say, the fastest path to deep waters. As for if they can hear you when their pinging or not, if I understand correctly, when they are pinging, they are listening. I think you want to make whatever manuever you want to make, when they're not pinging. Supposedly when they stop pinging they could be making a depth charge run, as they can't ping and depth charge at the same time. And supposedly TM beefs up the destroyers, so it's tougher to escape them. Good luck.

And oh, you can use a little time compression to speed things along, but I wouldn't go higher than 32x until you know you're moving away from them.