Sea Mines how???

[Steve_Raglan]

so i am attacking scapa flow and ive hit the mines multiple times so i just wonder how to be able to detect/know where they are?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Well there is a job you can give officers in the HQ to organise recon for Scarpa Flow which will reveal the locations of seamines and anti-sub netting. Otherwise they are hard to spot and you need to be careful in your choice of approach to avoid them.

[Steve_Raglan]

hm ok thx

[Wham Bam Thank you Ma'am]

Enter scappa flow from the east at night, you need to surface briefly to get over the submarine net, then you can dive down again

[Kosmo-not]

I was able to enter from the west one time. It involved firing a torpedo ahead of me, which triggered the mines in my path.

[Steve_Raglan]

what i did and thought would be good is to zoom out my camera and watch ahead of sub to see the mines before hitting them. but i feel like the hydrophone should be able to detect mines or atleast have a kinda sonar like ish tech

[wolf310ii]

Originally posted by MissDaily:

but i feel like the hydrophone should be able to detect mines

Thats like saying you should be able to smell colours.
Mines dont make noises and therefor cant be detected by the hydrophon

[Steve_Raglan]

ok so i did a recon on scapa flow and on the East there is only a net and on the south and west there are lines of mines so its best to enter from east

[JorEl]

Been there, done that:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/494840/discussions/0/3713810544749993770/

In this thread Ruby told me how to see the mines close to the sub.

In practice I never got to see them and blowed them with the sub when sneaking out of Scapa.

So remember to keep some repair parts for the last part of the mission.

[Ivellios]

Originally posted by MissDaily:

what i did and thought would be good is to zoom out my camera and watch ahead of sub to see the mines before hitting them. but i feel like the hydrophone should be able to detect mines or atleast have a kinda sonar like ish tech

wolf responded to the hydrophone comment...

Sonar : Just surface and turn on your lights and let everyone know you're there. Have you ever been pinged by a destroyer? That's sonar. Just like you're depth finder (remember the warning on that?). Sonar will let you know the contours of the seabed and any objects, but it is such a massive soundwave it's as anti-stealth as you can get. The UBoat's intentional designed reliance on sea charts, hydrophone, and lack of any sonar, outside of depth finder, are for the very reason of stealth.

Why can't your Uboat go about sounding like a DD on the hunt, while you try to sneak past defences and without any warning sink one of their warships? Well, now, the answer is in the question.

Let's remember how incredibly dangerous it was to be assigned to a Uboat. Reliance on less than perfectly accurate sea charts may have contributed to one or more Uboat(s) not returning home.