Interesting about the change in the spotting code.
I lost 3 of my boats to "lucky" DC runs from planes. First one was in an S-Boat. I blame my watch crew for that SNAFU. Didn't spot the plane until he was about 8,000 ft away. Needless to say that I was hit with two charges before my conning tower was under.
The other two boats I lost were Porpoise class, and I could have sworn that there was an issue with my mod soup since I had been nailed with both of the charges at approx. 170ft.
The S-Boat incident was a sobering lesson to a skipper just out of submarine school!
