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Originally Posted by manucapo
my experience is that once they already detected you
is better to zig zag at slow speed than to ground
cause it seems that once they detected you and you ground, they just keep
depthcarging your general area (they dont seem to know exactly where you are)
but they will just keep depth charging and you might get lucky,
tho this has never been succesfull for me
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The sand on the bottom absorbs a large amount of the force, so grounding actually worked quite well (at least for the subs which survived to tell the story
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Originally Posted by seafarer
Their active sonar projected it's pulses in all directions (panoramic sonar) or forward and down (narrow beam).
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This picture shows the different beams used during the war. I don't know how effective grounding should be, just that some captains said they used it to good effect when trapped in shallow water. Again, some may have tried it and failed, but we can't ask them.
