There is no evidence that Dick O'Kane ever used the Subsim Dick O'Kane method exactly as taught. As a master of the TDC he would have been intimately familiar with constant bearing attacks and would have used them.
Because of differences in how the game TDC works and the actual TDC it is not possible for us to replicate Dick O'Kane's practice. And when those of us who applied constant bearing techniques to the game TDC and came up with the attack method did it, we knew that Dick O'Kane had nothing to do with the technique.
In order to make our techniques memorable we chose to name them after prominent US Submarine Captains: hence the Dick O'Kane Technique and the John P Cromwell Technique.
These attack methods are historically feasible, meaning they could have been performed with the instruments and knowledge of the time. They cannot be shown to be precisely applied by anyone during the course of the war.
So you can do a game Dick O'Kane attack in a real submarine but you cannot use Captain O'Kane's method in Silent Hunter 4. Our game TDC will not allow it.
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