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Originally Posted by mooncatt
Apparently that captain got a little tired of zig-zagging half across the Pacific, with tragic consequences.
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I'm pretty sure they were zig-zagging. They didn't change course every five minutes; the legs were longer than that. The Japanese sub just happened to get lucky.
US sub commanders described having a ship or convoy accidentally escape by zigging at just the right moment, and others mentioned having ships they thought would escape suddenly turn right toward them.
When real ships thought a sub was near they didn't weave back and forth like in the game; they turned their tail to the sub and ran.