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Originally Posted by Luno

On a related note, I have questions about the thermal layer. Does it actually do anything? I thought it would protect against active sonar, but I was still getting pinged on that fateful day, over 100 feet below said layer.

I can't say much about the thermal layer in SH4 beyond the fact that it exists. SHCE seemed much better in this regard; with the bathythermagraph, you not only could see at what depth the layer was at, but also the magnitude of the temperature change.