Much point going deeper??

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by ddiplock

As I understood it, when you hear the pings go from intermittent to a quick succession of pings, they've zeroed in on you, they are pinging you.

How else can you explain that when the pings are quick, enemy escorts frequently come right over the top of your boat

I always thought that the time distance between pings was only an indicator of how far the DD is to you. Closer to you, closer the pings, according to simple-to-understand phisics. I think pinging was set a standar continuous mode, thus being no crewmen 'hitting the ping button' faster as he gets closer.

Modern active sonar will have a 'single ping' and a 'continuous ping', I don't think the pings will be done quicker or slower at the operator's discretion.