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Originally Posted by Raptor1
I seem to recall that when a depth charge explodes, it causes disturbances in the water that make sonar ineffective for a relatively long time, so it would be quite difficult to determine a kill immediately after a depth charging.
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That is true. The destroyer is blind for minutes after the attack run. I remember listening to some audio clip from tests how depthcharge affects hydrophone and some of the explosions could last as long as 60 seconds.
Here's a great site with lots of audio clips (I think the clip I mentioned is somewhere there) from hydrophone training and some from real attacks:
http://www.hnsa.org/sound/index.htm