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Originally Posted by minute
Well, a sailor looking down from 15 or 20 meters high above the waterline in a large ship's command room will have far better chances of seeing your sub from afar than your lookouts sitting 2 meters above the water in the freezing cold. This is explained in the GWX manual. Your sub speed will also matter as a larger wake and splash created will make you more visible.
That being said, it sometimes happens that it takes a while for your crew to report a sighting, even if you can clearly see it yourself. I also find it interesting that the ship changed direction and ran away from you. Merchants usually just start zig-zagging but continue in the same direction, which makes intercept quite trivial in the end... Maybe it was just a coincidence?
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I know my wake matters, so that's why I said that I was going slow, one third ahead. But you do have a point there. The seas were very calm, no wind at all. And the lookouts on the merchant were a lot higher up than my poor crew. It was IIA, so can't be more than three, four meters above the water.
Perhaps the ship did start zig-zagging, but due to the fog I only saw it zig but missed the zag...
She did continue on in the same general direction, that's why I could intercept her a second time. Next time, I just need to remember to dive in such weather conditions...
