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Some feel the merchants are stopping so the destroyers can listen with the sonar equipment.
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I don't buy it. The destroyers shouldnt be listening, they should be pinging like crazy!! Otherwise, you could just shut everything down, stay quiet, and wait them out.
The convoy should (in general) turn away from the direction of the attack, and the escorts should direct their active sonar toward the presumed area the torps were launched from (and sometimes actually beeline directly toward the area, following torp tracks if they are steam).
Eventually the convoy would resume its base course, but increase the frequency of zig zagging.