Detectable Visual Range? and more questions

[DrBeast]

Originally Posted by tomoose

I try to use the depth charge explosions as cover and increase speed during all that noise and cut back to 1/3rd when I think the depth charges are done. That's a pure judgement call as the Captain. If I know a destroyer has got my number on a run I'll hit the gas as he's coming in, noise be damned!

Uhm...according to reliable sources (Ducimus or tater or someone else with a deep understanding of the game's mechanics), depth charges hitting the water or going off do NOT mask your sub's noise. Just a heads-up there.
Silent Running works wonders with masking your sub's noise. In a test scenario I had created, an Elite Destroyer would pick up my engine's noise at roughly 2500 meters in calm seas when I was cruising towards him at periscope depth at Ahead 1/3 speed. That distance was reduced to a whooping 200 meters at the same weather conditions, depth and speed, but with Silent Running on! These stats are subject to change in stock/TMaru/Other Mods That Mess With Sensors cases of course, but the difference, I think, will still be quite dramatic.

Originally Posted by tomoose

Above all, patience, patience, patience and try to stay deep and quiet.

What he said