I tried once as an experiment to see if I could tell by the passive where the active pings were comming from.
Since I knew (only one warship in the area) where they were comming from I followed the sound contact expecting to get my eardrums blown in when the ping came.
It never did :hmm: but we could hear in the ambient noise the pings.
You would think since the amplitude
of the ping sound wave is far above that of the engine, screw, pump, powerplant noise it would knock your socks off.
Oh well the limitations of games
ps; you cant hear cans splashing either nor can you hear their explosions on the passive. How many movies have you seen with the sonar man ripping off the headset in pain after a DC detonated??