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Originally Posted by Grumpy Pete
Are you early in the war? I think they get more accurate with time regarding depth. I just started playing again after about 10 years so I'm not absolutely positive about that.
Trivia info: At the beginning of the war u-boats were limited/ordered not to exceed a depth of 90 meters. They actually had no idea how deep they could safely go until a depth gauge malfunction occurred on a boat (don't remember which one). They were trying to get deep but the gauge was reading the same depth. A crewman cleared the problem and they were at 140 meters. The word got around and other captains began pushing deeper to get under the British depth charges. The Allies started the war with depth charges that couldn't be set deeper than 300 feet. It took them a while to discover the boats were going much deeper than that so they changed that setting in increments--450, 600, 750. I don't have great info on dates for the changes unfortunately. I once saw a picture of a Tear-Drop depth charge and it had a setting of 900 feet on it.
Edit: An interesting link for some info. https://www.ussslater.org/index.php |
Very interesting, indeed! The pre-war diving depth for deep dive trials was 50m. Acc. to some Uboat war patrol logs, this was still the practice until end 1940. The B.d.U. order for deep dive trials to be done at 2A-meters (160m) was not given until Jan.1941.