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The ability to ride up and down a wave is dependent upon:
1. The wave height
2. the trough width
3. The angle and length of the face of the wave
4. the wave frequency
5. Ship length
6. Ship Bouyancy /CG

Currently in both Silent hunters the width of the trough is ALWAYS too short to allow for the dynamic people want. So you wind up with flying ships or ships cutting through the waves. In reality a long gentle swell can, at times, cause more pitching that shorter high peaked waves (what the SH series has).

For the size and relationship of the variables listed, the dive rate mod actually gives you the correct action. (Backed up by an ex Balao/Guppy class sailor that's tested it- but few people listen tho him for some reason.
Quote 399nkov
"In Heavy seas, Props stay submerged, water over the bridge, (If water went over the sail, main induction would close causing the engines to suck all the air out of the boat) not too much roll when underway. Very nice.

Out of Key West we edged on a few hurricanes and that made it bad, the capt'n would head into the waves, which made her roll less, but then the bow pitch became really bad at times. Up and over a wave and thunder down with a loud shudder out of the old girl. (USS Seacat SS399) Waves would drench lookouts. Below decks, the poppet valves a poppin, Main Induction closing, engines sucking air out of the boat and just a note, props broached very few times that I remember in over two years.
Overall the boat didn't roll as much as one would think. They weren't top heavy. Just like nukes, most of her was underwater when on the surface.

In my opinion, this mod re-creates actual movements of a sub underway and will always be installed with my other mods."

It's interesting that the pitch most people are looking for he describes as happening on the edge of a hurricane.

Too many people want a roller coaster rather than a realistic simulation.

The aforementioned relationship of waves and ship type is the reason a large ship can cut through a wave a trawler has to climb up and down. What everyone thinks of as large swells in the SH series may have height, but the other variables are incorrect to allow the boat to ride up and down the wave. Get those correct and the boats will pitch more and do so realistically.