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Originally Posted by USNSRCaseySmith
Danke Frau 
Yeah I find that being anywhere near that shallow water gets me killed easily. I dont like it one bit. I can deal with around 40 to 60 meters but when Im at P depth with about 10 or 20 M below me, I get reaaaaal nervous. what I usually do is go to my grid. Hit some merchants on the way (usually when Im pretty confident about being alone in the water there) then get nothing on my grid, then head for a nearby port and just camp around outside of it. since merchants come in and out all the time. I have bad luck with convoys and TF's since they almost always are either too far to intercept, or too fast and moving in a ridiculous direction for me to even think of catching up. But I dont mind the single merchant thing for now, Im getting better at intercepts as I dont have to look at a quick reference anymore, so this is a plus  |
I was hopeless at intercepts when I first started, I'd just get a contact report and head off in whatever direction seemed appropriate at ahead full until I got within striking distance of the projected course... then I'd start backtracking along it or chasing behind to see if I could find them. And I had no real feel for the distances involved, I'd go chasing things that I didn't have a chance in Hades of actually catching.
And I don't like shallow water either, my last patrol put me in the area between Northern Ireland and the Hebrides and I didn't like it one bit. I survived, even after three encounters with unhappy destroyers, and I'm not sure how since I crash dived once and ended up with about 5m under my keel and surely they could've blasted me to pieces if they'd been able to stay on top of me. The worst was when I got a grid just east of Scapa and got spotted by a task force of 4 DDs - I went as deep as I could but with 4 of them to take turns hunting and attacking... oy. That was a very short career.
