Zig-zagging would be appropriate for countermeasures against torpedo attack. It doesn't particularly help you find a submarine. It just creates a lot of self-generated acoustic noise when you want to be listening for something.
It makes you wonder if any fleet submarines have been detached for this formation.
Uninformed guess, submarine hunting?
Ahhhh you could be correct!
Been reading a lot of sub-hunting action in the plane posts lately. Sounds plausible at the least.
Zig-zagging would be appropriate for countermeasures against torpedo attack. It doesn't particularly help you find a submarine. It just creates a lot of self-generated acoustic noise when you want to be listening for something.
It makes you wonder if any fleet submarines have been detached for this formation.
I really have no idea, maybe they picked up something that might have been a foreign sub and started counter measures to break up a soft target. idk.