my miss reading
the text stated that "...several U.S. submarines had nearly broached and sunk in heavy weather." In my memory I had dropped the word NEARLY. This is in the book The Bravest Man, about the career of O'Kane on the USS Tang, on page 98. It gives the one account of the Tarpon, where it was flooded by a huge wave which shorted out everything in the control room leaving the boat helpless in the storm unable to dive. On page 99 it states that it barely rode out the storm. So no sub was actually lost, but the submariners realized that the subs COULD be lost and in some cases almost were. It was talking in the context about 60 to 80 foot waves. Any ship without power can be sunk in a huge storm. Even sub hulls are not reality proof.
So my mistake. NEARLY sunk. I still want the huge waves and storms in my games.
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