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Originally Posted by SteamWake
Its actually easy to ping out a long tin can setting on a bed of sand and rock.
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That's not what the captain of S-38 said. He grounded
four times while under attack, and evert time the Japanese sonar lost him. There was the added benefit that the sand absorbs the shock of the blasts, or at least deflects it.
If the water was shallow enough, grounding was considered an excellent tactic. Unfortunately it makes no difference in the game whatsoever; or so I'm told.
http://www.multied.com/Navy/Submarine/s38.html