Well, I can help with that: in contrast to the film, the book leaves this question open with a very elegant solution. The relevant part goes like this: "We are close - said the sonar operator of the Augusta. We are very... And then they heard the noise" or something like that, so it's really up to the reader to decide.
My question of course has nothing to do with this matter. I totally understand that no one knows the exact bearing and course of the submarines at one specific point in time, especially in a fictionalized work, what I found surprising was that the authors (including Kurdin!) gave numbers that are simply inconsistent with each other. Or my understanding is wrong -that's why I asked it...
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