Diving REALLY Deep?

[bsalyers]

I see in published accounts that O'Kane took TANG well below test depth, and in game, I've survived incredible depths before eventually being crushed. My question is, how can I order a depth that is beyond the maximum portrayed on the gauge? I know the game recognizes greater depths, because they are listed as you sink. Any ideas?

[gg5056]

I took a gato class to 450ft. with no problems. game incidates crash deep was 325ft.

[rodan54]

Press the 'd' key to execute a dive, then once you reach the desired depth, press 'a' to level out. ;)

[bsalyers]

Thanks, rodan54!

[Sailor Steve]

Which brings up an interesting point: if the real guage has a limit, how did they know how deep they were? I firmly believe U.S. fleet subs could dive a lot deeper than the official limits, but how did they know?

[vatek]

I suppose you could guesstimate by knowing the divisions on the depth gauge. Like the scene in Das Boot during the Gibraltar sequence when they're at a depth deeper than the gauge shows.

IE:

|...|...|
1...2...3...4...5

That only works to a certain depth however. I don't think the in-game gauge does that.

[Bill Nichols]

The answer is here:

http://www.uboat.net/forums/read.php?20,59062,59238,quote=1

Conversion from sea pressure to depth: every 100ft = 44 psi increase in pressure.

:know:

ps. Note that the article above has a math error. 375psi = 852 ft, NOT 750 ft.

:|\\

[Sailor Steve]

Nothing like a direct reference. Thanks, Professor N.

[TwistedFemur]

I took a Gato to 768ft before she imploded I got the screen saying that Ive disgraced the navy and been thrown into chains. :hmm:

[nomad_delta]

My poor Tambor class only made it down to about 370ft before imploding.

nomad_delta

[Werewolf13]

In the book Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane he states that while on sea trials he took the Tang down to 625+ feet. He mentions that the depth gauge pegged out at 600 feet.

While serving on USS Sandlance, SSN-660 the very first watch I stood was monitoring a pressure gauge in the Engine Room Upper level while doing angles and dangles. I was on sound powered phones and was required to read out the pressure at regular intervals during the exercise. Boring as hell and at the time I had no clue why I was doing it (backup to depth gauges up forward). So if WWII subs had pressure gauges it would have been easy for them to keep track of depth using pressure - someone could have just made a table that could have been read from.

[Bill Nichols]

In the book Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane he states that while on sea trials he took the Tang down to 625+ feet. He mentions that the depth gauge pegged out at 600 feet.

While serving on USS Sandlance, SSN-660 the very first watch I stood was monitoring a pressure gauge in the Engine Room Upper level while doing angles and dangles. I was on sound powered phones and was required to read out the pressure at regular intervals during the exercise. Boring as hell and at the time I had no clue why I was doing it (backup to depth gauges up forward). So if WWII subs had pressure gauges it would have been easy for them to keep track of depth using pressure - someone could have just made a table that could have been read from.

Certainly they had pressure gauges. From the item I referenced above:

"In one action in the Pacific the Tang lost depth control, leaving the control room depth gauge pinned past its max reading of 600ft for a LOOONG time. Long afterwards, when they were both POW's, a forward torpedoman told O'Kane that he saw an external pressure gauge in that compartment go past 375psi (750ft [sic - should actually be 850!] depth), but decided not to tell O'Kane lest he decide the boat was safe to such an extreme depth and use it routinely in battle!"