Yea, sadly your sonarman is a failed issue in many ways. Before you come up make sure you ask him "for nearest warship" and he'll give you a clue on range, if close, be careful.
Usually a escort that close with sonar you'll be getting pinged, unless he has you on longscale and you want to chance it. Also doesn't hurt to turn and clear your baffles so your sonarman can hear behind you.
Without cams, sound is everything, helps to crank it up and even look up at the ceiling and you'll hear ships a lot easier.
Never forget a patrol or so ago I came up to shoot at a carrier, no escort near, but a Kongo BB ran me over as I was looking through the scope, pushed me down to 100ft, did some topside damage and saved the carrier. I let fly by sonar and only got one hit, course without cams had no clue what happened and had to do another long end around.
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