Places i tend to camp out at:
DB98
DN76
ED98
The acutal US east coast, along the coast i tend to avoid because the shelf is very shallow (30 meters in most places), and the patrols are fairly consistant.
The thing about drumbeat in general, particuarlly the caribean, is traffic is bottlenecked in certain areas, due to the land masses in the local area. The grids i mentioned are such bottlenecks. DB98 however is off the us coast, but the shipping comes off the shelf into deeper water there and their routes are fairly consistant. Pin point the actual route and the rest is just a waiting game. The map panthercules gives, will give you a good idea of shipping in the EC and ED grids.
Generally speaking the traffic going from North to south orginates from the new york Area, and stays up on the shelf, but crosses into deeper water at DB98, past the east coast of florida which is heavily patroled, and then starts heading east once it gets to cuba. The traffic generally doesnt go south of cuba, but stays in the straights to the north of it, and then crosses south at DN76, once they clear the islands they head SE to Port of spain.
Traffic orginating from Port of spain tends to head either north to NY area, or it crosses the atlantic. The area off port of spain is also heavily patroled, the water i shallow, but its workable with depths ranging from 120 to 160 meters. Patroling off those waters can be VERY lucrative, but also VERY dangerous if your caught by a deterimined destoryer.. The water is just deep enough to make it worth a try.
of course, then theres always curracco harbor, which also has some traffic coming out of it. Lighly guarded, its like shooting fish in a barrel.
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