Died from colision?
 

Hi Kaleuns, last night on patrol i was after a lone small merchant surfaced and i shot a stern torpedo strait in her screws and she immediately stoped then i started to turn to finish her off with the deck gun when an english speed boat came up (i already knew inbound warships were coming to my position via hidrophones, had sunked another small merchant not far from where i was) i face towards the speed boat and start firing with the deck and the flak but the damn thing is so fast that i was not geting a hit, only a few rounds from the flak that i was controling myself but not making to much damage, still the little bug managed to kill a men :-? and i was geting real mad when a shell landed near my starbord side, i loked trough the binoculars and saw an armed trawler closing fast ( damn whatch officer :down: didint saw that come) ok time to dive i went to about 30 meters and start walking away from the scene ( the merchant was still surfaced and not moving) the strange thing happened passed two minutes after i start geting the message from my CE we are taking damage and the lights start to flicker i consult the damage report and the front of the boat is completly destroyed and everyone in front are dead :o and im not hearing a sound of colision and there´s still 54 meters under the keel and seconds later im dead with the explanation by colision and i was like WTF????? I dont know what hapened does someone has a clue? It couldnt be the merchant she was not sinking yet. :huh: But the real strange was not even a sound only the lights being crushed.

You porobably hit the sinking ship. Did you get any message of ship sunk? Maybe you hit a underwater mountain/hill, or even the shelf itself?

Where were you? Could you have hit a mine?

I didint got the ship sunk message :huh: i was north of Lock Ewe its waters of 100 meters deep, underwater mountains are they part of GWX? But even if it was that wasnt i supposed to hear a sound?

Probably not, unfortunately. I didin't hear any blow when I hit a mine once, nor when I collided with a subnet. But when I hit a ship (it happens while in convoy) I think I hear our hulls scratching each other, at least when I'm surfaced.

I think you hit one of Diving Duck's submerged barrels filled with gun powder :D

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=103846

I never hit a mine if you die by hiting one is this reported in the death message or only says like my case death by colision?

I don't know, but I think it's quite unlikely that you die immediately after hitting a mine. It's more like you die a few minutes after because of hull damage and heavy flooding or by pressure, when you go too deep after the water makes your ship much heavier.

try nygm instead:cool:

It must have been a mine. I hit once on my way out of Lorient once and saw the same message as you.

Ok thanks ;).

Out of the blue
 

Same thing happened to me about an hour ago. I was surfaced with no warning I started to take damage all over the place. Did not have time to figure what happened. We all died from collision. There was nothing around to collide with. I would have liked to go down fighting but did not have a chance.

Also, did any of the armed merchants hit you with a cannon or the pesky PT boat hit you? Sometimes this is enough to create damage and when you submerge, the depths create more damage on the already messed up parts. Then the black screen and "water pressure killed your good time" shows up.

It could have been sabotage...I heard from another Kaleun that you have an english cook on board. If he ran the faucets long enough, you wouldn't even realize until it was too late. ;)