A lucky tanker?

[washishu]

Also if you press K on the keyboard, it brings you to the captains log. It will tell you if you sank it!

I am aware of the log but once previously I had intended to check the log later to see if a damaged ship had eventually sunk; and I forgot.

If you didn't get the "It's going down" text, and you move beyond 35-50-ish km it is going to despawn and you'll never get the credit. If you would then regain contact it will respawn in pristine condition as if nothing happened and your torpedoes and other damage will be entirely in vain.

That would make a lot of sense. I have in the past pondered on whether SH is generating and 'playing' everything—Atlantic, Med, etc.—or whether it just deals with things in my immediate vicinity; the latter seemed the more likely. And I seem to recall reading somewhere here in the past that 50km was some kind of magic SH number.

And whilst I'm here, another thing I'd like to know concerns the hydrophone, or more specifically the hydrophone reports. When the operator calls a contact at long range, what sort of distance is that? (I understand that in reality this would be a variable figure as it is governed by all sorts of factors, but in SH?) Likewise medium and short.