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AS · 01-08-07, 06:11 PM

Talking about US dive depths we shoudn´t forget that real deep (I mean deeep) diving wasn´t that important for U.S subs, because the Japanese had mayn depth charge problems and in the beginning of the war they couldn´t actually re-set the depth parameters. From what I´ve read so far they didn´t even care much and their depth charges were often misplaced or went off in shallow depths like 35m.

Another point is that Japanese subs couldn´t dive very deep (about 75m), so they didn´t expect enemy subs to go deeper.

To cut it short: Dive depths were not as important for US skippers than it became in the Atlantic. Japanese ant-submarine technology and SKILL was rather limited---

Cheers, AS

01-08-07, 06:11 PM	#9
AS 中国水兵 Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Germany Posts: 275 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 0	Talking about US dive depths we shoudn´t forget that real deep (I mean deeep) diving wasn´t that important for U.S subs, because the Japanese had mayn depth charge problems and in the beginning of the war they couldn´t actually re-set the depth parameters. From what I´ve read so far they didn´t even care much and their depth charges were often misplaced or went off in shallow depths like 35m. Another point is that Japanese subs couldn´t dive very deep (about 75m), so they didn´t expect enemy subs to go deeper. To cut it short: Dive depths were not as important for US skippers than it became in the Atlantic. Japanese ant-submarine technology and SKILL was rather limited--- Cheers, AS __________________ Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Oscar Wilde)