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Originally Posted by Deathblow
I keep seeing missions where subs are in water with less than 10ft of water under their keel.... and to me this just don't seem realistic. Anyone know how "shallow" subs really get? I know that littoral warfare is the thing of the future but come on....
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I've had this conversation with a former submarine officer. He said that the issue was safety of navigation. If you figure that most large ships draw about 50 feet of water, then a submarine wants to be able to stay sufficiently deep that the top of the sail is more than 50 feet below the water. That way they won't get hit.
Depending on the size of the submarine that should tell you what the shallowest they'd go is. An SSN is about 50' tall, so... 150 feet maybe. Any shallower and you'd start having to worry about someone running you over.