What is the meaning of CAV?

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What is the meaning of CAV?

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I guess it is cavitation, but I want to confirm

I haven't seen it in the manual
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Cavitate. It's the point where the pressure around a spinning prop lowers to the point that the water 'boils' around it. This increases ambient noise significantly. Keep your ships out of CAV if you're hunting subs (or are a hunted sub). Depth can alleviate the speed of cavitation in some cases.
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Will it also degrade your sensors?

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Speed in general degrades sonar performance (lots of self noise going on).
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