First time being depth charged - Evaision Advice?

[kroll688]

Modern active sonars have a higher pitch whine sound, that varies in tone. It is not the pinging heard in game, but ASDIC is a very basic form of active sonar, sending out large pulses in front of the ship, so the pinging sound is most likely accurate for a bare steel hull.

[Gereke]

When I was a shipboard sailor (before I went Master at Arms), one night I was quite perplexed by this noise I heard while down in the berthing compartment (served on a Ticonderoga Class). My berthing was in the aft part of the ship, just a little below the water line.

The noise was this really odd whistling chirping business that sounded almost melodic. I finally couldn't take it anymore and asked one of the more seasoned sailors WTF that noise was.

"Oh, that's the active SONAR".

"You sure? Thought maybe we'd run over Humphrey the Hump back"

[Gargamel]

Originally Posted by Gereke

When I was a shipboard sailor (before I went Master at Arms), one night I was quite perplexed by this noise I heard while down in the berthing compartment (served on a Ticonderoga Class). My berthing was in the aft part of the ship, just a little below the water line.

The noise was this really odd whistling chirping business that sounded almost melodic. I finally couldn't take it anymore and asked one of the more seasoned sailors WTF that noise was.

"Oh, that's the active SONAR".

"You sure? Thought maybe we'd run over Humphrey the Hump back"

I heard something very similar once while SCUBA diving off Jamaica. When we got back to the surface, the dive master told us it was Sonar from naval exercises they holding in the area.