Sunken ship icon colour

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Originally Posted by mooncatt

my brother is pretty "up" on sh3 and he told me its grey because it got sunk by natural causes i.e weather collision with another ship etc i was once passing a fishing boat and didnt want to waste my ammo on it, as i was passing it in rough weather it sunk on its own

This is true. But usually you don't get credit for "natural" sinkings.

Like others, I too have been perplexed by the grey icon when a) I had identified the ship, b) I received the telltale "Ship sunk" message and c) credit was recorded in my logs.

The consistent thing here seems to be the bad weather. Perhaps, DeepSix's "gap" theory is correct. Sounds plausible.