exist a way to decrease water transparency ?

[Hitman]

In fact this all depends to a great extent of the heigth you are looking from and from the cleanness of the water. In a harbour, with muddy and oily water, it is difficult to make out the bottom of a ship when looking at it from the pier. In the open sea, from the top of a high ship it is not so difficult at all to see the bottom of others or underwater objects. I have seen clearly in the mediterranean small fishes and the seafloor in depths exceeding 10 metres. Had a submarine been there, I would have spotted it from the deck of my ship with no problem.

That said, I can't speak about the Pacific but I believe it is mostly a very transparent sea

[AkbarGulag]

Originally Posted by Hitman

That said, I can't speak about the Pacific but I believe it is mostly a very transparent sea

In many places it will be like the mediteranean sea. Large shallow waters with light/sandy bottoms areas. Lots of coral. The New Zealand Corvette's 'Kiwi' and 'Moa' sunk a Japanese fleet sub in the solomons by running it into coral. Given they had seen the sub and forced it to submerge, in the clear waters it had no chance to evade these boats. They merely hearded onto the reef.

We all know what happened to Germany's sub fleet when it entered the mediteranean waters.

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by AkbarGulag

We all know what happened to Germany's sub fleet when it entered the mediteranean waters.

Yep, and they (the Germans) actually developed a specific camo scheme for their boats operating in those waters.

[tonschk]

Thank you all for your help , yes is possible to see ( sometimes more sometimes less )the underwater parts of the sub ,may be depend of the point of view , the height of the point of view, how much rough is the surface of the water , thank you for the help

[Sailor Steve]

I'll back up what the others have said, and then I have a question.

When I was on a destroyer based at Subic Bay in the Philippines, there were days when leaving the bay I could clearly see rocks and plants on the bottom of a channel designed for the biggest aircraft carriers to use. We had fun watching the dolphins swim under our ship. On the other hand, on a gray cloudy day the water was a solid blue sheet.

My question: is that reflected in SH4? I've seen the lovely shots of the sub at periscope depth, but does the water become more opaque when the weather is bad?

I have to ask since I still don't have the rig to run the game, so I can't look.