Originally Posted by
Surplus
Hardly obliterated the CPA, was certainly visible on it and if we could see it, so could the sub, if he wasn't too fast.
Unless you were the P3C crew at the time, it was their opinion that the actual CPA was obliterated. The P3 noise extended for long enough to obliterate the actual CPA buoy.
Instead of being able to start tracking they had to try to relocate the alerted submarine.