Re: Seaplanes & Submarines
I'll clarify that by "sudden" storms I'm talking about from 10-15 minutes warning. Even the slowest-diving subs can submerge in under three minutes and the fast-diving ones in under a minute. OTOH, a surface ship can't get very far in 15 minutes.
I have not quite decided how frequent I want them to be (including duration and average time between storms). This will probably become clearly once I decide on *why* there are sudden, violent storms. They could be natural, technologically influenced or perhaps of magical/divine origin; each has it's advantages and disadvantages.
If I do decide on sudden storms of short duration, then submerged range is really not not much of an issue.
I will again say that this is a going to be a pulp setting. It should ve *vaguely* plausible, but does not need to stand up to any hard science test.
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