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markdenny · 02-15-09, 11:26 AM

Please forgive me if im wrong but on real charts of the sea would they not have had depths etc marked on them if they do can this not be replecated on the game charts.

Pablo · 02-15-09, 12:33 PM

Hi!

OK, you are forgiven.

Real charts had soundings marked on them. They were not in the exquisite and systematic detail as your sub-ocean maps, but then again they were generally for the benefit of ship captains who did not really care how deep it was as long as it was deep enough for their ship to sail on through.

The kind of systematic sonar depth mapping that allowed underwater depth maps like the kind you see in the Silent Hunter series was only done long after World War II was over.

Pablo

Kpt. Lehmann · 03-14-09, 07:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Pablo

The kind of systematic sonar depth mapping that allowed underwater depth maps like the kind you see in the Silent Hunter series was only done long after World War II was over.

Pablo

(To the tune of Wagner's 'Ride of the Valkyries.')

Which gives me an evil idea.

Etienne · 03-15-09, 03:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Pablo

The kind of systematic sonar depth mapping that allowed underwater depth maps like the kind you see in the Silent Hunter series was only done long after World War II was over.

And even then, many modern charts use soundings from the 19th century, or soundings from ship's echosounders.

In the later case, you can often clearly see the route the ships took

02-15-09, 11:26 AM	#1
markdenny Sparky Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: stow,lincolnshire GB Posts: 150 Downloads: 216 Uploads: 0	Charts Please forgive me if im wrong but on real charts of the sea would they not have had depths etc marked on them if they do can this not be replecated on the game charts.

02-15-09, 12:33 PM	#2
Pablo Commodore Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 641 Downloads: 165 Uploads: 0	Hi! OK, you are forgiven. Real charts had soundings marked on them. They were not in the exquisite and systematic detail as your sub-ocean maps, but then again they were generally for the benefit of ship captains who did not really care how deep it was as long as it was deep enough for their ship to sail on through. The kind of systematic sonar depth mapping that allowed underwater depth maps like the kind you see in the Silent Hunter series was only done long after World War II was over. Pablo __________________ "...far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt, speech before the Hamilton Club, Chicago, April 10, 1899 Last edited by Pablo; 03-14-09 at 08:50 PM.