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Originally Posted by Muckenberg
The Admiralty introduced a minimum depth of fifty feet (fifteen meters) for deep charges to protect surface vessels dropping charges from explosion. Beginning in the summer of 1941, the Coast Command introduced fifty feet of bombs dropped from aircraft until a hydrostatic detonator was deployed to a depth of twenty-five feet.
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Thank you Muckenberg
From my own research I remember that initially depth charges pistols were set too low. Later studies demontrated that in the time elapsed from aircraft dtection to DC dropping, the U-boat couldn't dive that much, and pistol settings were adjusted accordingly.
I can provide dates and figures, but now it is dinner time and I am too hungry to bother checking the file where I gathered the data
