The thing to do there tscalvert, is if you have SH4 - aka: Silent Hunter: Wolves of the Pacific, click on this link:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/forumdisplay.php?f=202
which will take you to the SH4 portion of the SubSim site. This is the SH5 area in this thread of yours, so head on over to the SH4 area, make a "new topic" posting, and describe your issue over there. I have a feeling ("a feeling deep inside - oh yeah"), that this will take a few more postings.
If you have SH5 - aka: Silent Hunter 5: Battle of the Atlantic, then you'll have to have someone more familiar with SH5 help you. I can't even get my Captain to get on and off ladders in a safe, yet efficient manner in SH5, which makes it somewhat difficult to "Crash Dive!" the boat when an airplane approaches. 'Course, the plane will eventually make a hole in the boat, thereby allowing us to get our boat beneath the waves...
