Water Depth

[tavin44]

Anyone else think water depth in this game needs work..i mean your in the ocean and theres only like 30 meters underneath the keel? its like only deep parts are like in the middle of nowhere..i know the british channel had to be deeper than 25 meters.Maybe a mod can be made?

[Ruby]

Hi tavin44,

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Cheers Ruby

[tavin44]

Well most of the north sea is less than 100 meters..some parts of the english channel are like 25 meters,

[wolf310ii]

Originally posted by tavin44:

Well most of the north sea is less than 100 meters..some parts of the english channel are like 25 meters,

The north sea (and the area around england and ireland) IS very shallow, maybe take a look on an real sea map.
The english channel is on the north sea side only around 50m deep (not from coast to coast, only the deepest part of course).
Even half of the bicaya bay is shallow, that why it was so dangerous for u-boats

[Red_Seven_]

Originally posted by tavin44:

Well most of the north sea is less than 100 meters..some parts of the english channel are like 25 meters,

You know some thousand years ago the british isles weren't isles, but rather connected to continental europe? Just open google maps and you can see the tectonic plate it's belonging to.

[Ziggurt]

Originally posted by tavin44:

Well most of the north sea is less than 100 meters..some parts of the english channel are like 25 meters,

Which is correct?

Regarding English channel - it is not exactly Mariana Trench we are talking about here.

The game is not exactly 1-1 with reality but it is rather close imho (note that depth info from ingame map is not exactly correct, you'll be scrapping the sea bottom many times if you rely on it - echo sounder in command room gives more correct data).

Check the bathymetric data for yourself if you don't believe me:
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/maps/bathymetry/

[tavin44]

but y is the north sea so shallow? its a sea i know its gotta be deeper than 50 meters...and scapa flo harbor ..i never can do that mission..how do u evade destroyes when u can only go 25 meters

[Red_Seven_]

Originally posted by Ziggurt:

The game is not exactly 1-1 with reality but it is rather close imho (note that depth info from ingame map is not exactly correct, you'll be scrapping the sea bottom many times if you rely on it - echo sounder in command room gives more correct data).

Well, you know your boat already has some meters of draught even when the depth gauge shows 0m? The gauge isn't 'below keel level' but the echo sounder is. So if you dive to 24m in an area showing continous 25m depth you'll hit the ground ofc.

[Ziggurt]

Originally posted by Red_Seven_:

Originally posted by Ziggurt:

The game is not exactly 1-1 with reality but it is rather close imho (note that depth info from ingame map is not exactly correct, you'll be scrapping the sea bottom many times if you rely on it - echo sounder in command room gives more correct data).

Well, you know your boat already has some meters of draught even when the depth gauge shows 0m? The gauge isn't 'below keel level' but the echo sounder is. So if you dive to 24m in an area showing continous 25m depth you'll hit the ground ofc.

We are going bit off topic here - you are talking about measuring from keel and centerline of the uboat? Maybe you are correct, although I think sometimes difference can be over 10 meters - but that is kind beside the point right now - for me currently the map is more of a tool for roughly planning a course and echo sounder a tool to be used while traversing the shallow waters.

[DECAFBAD]

"bathymetry" is the word you should be putting into yahoo search. The North sea is shallow.

[wolf310ii]

Originally posted by tavin44:

its a sea i know its gotta be deeper than 50 meters...

No, you dont know obviously, you believe or wish it was deeper but you dont know.
If you would know, you wouldnt had open this thread.

[athenian]

I just typed 'north sea depth' on Bing and the first result is '...a shallow epicontinental sea with an average depth of 90 meters.....'

[WhjiteWolf]

Originally posted by athenian:

I just typed 'north sea depth' on Bing and the first result is '...a shallow epicontinental sea with an average depth of 90 meters.....'

*average....
Some parts are only 12m deep...

[R3dShift]

The game uses real data for the depths, its fairly accurate.
Just look at the mariana trench on the ingame map, impressive stuff.

[athenian]

Originally posted by WhjiteWolf:

Originally posted by athenian:

I just typed 'north sea depth' on Bing and the first result is '...a shallow epicontinental sea with an average depth of 90 meters.....'

*average....
Some parts are only 12m deep...

Yes, near the coast. I found this: https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/UK/UK-RN-I/UK-RN-I-8.html.
There's a nautical map with depth in fathoms (1 fathom = 1.8 m).

[c_asts]

Originally posted by tavin44:

but y is the north sea so shallow? its a sea i know its gotta be deeper than 50 meters...and scapa flo harbor ..i never can do that mission..how do u evade destroyes when u can only go 25 meters

North Sea is so shallow because it used to be arable land known as Doggerland. Yes, when you are sailing over the north sea, you are sailing over land that used to be forest. Then it turned to ice, and now its water.