Depth Test 260!!!!!
 

i just did some depth tests in the XI B & VIIC and both subs can dive to 260m's !!!!! :hmm: but from time to time u will get crushed ??? so what is the deepest u can dive and not die ???

GWX 2.0 ?? :ping: test was done in single play missions and 1940 subs

As far as I know if you are using SH3 Commander the crash depth is not a constant value - it varies to simulate reality, so you never know the depth exactly. I don;t know how it works without SH3 Commander, though.

Apparently, you will get warning by hull noises and leaks developing. Maybe even a "We are taking damage" warning.

But I have never done it.

I have taken an XXI to about 310 meters but she crushed.

IIRC stock SH3 crushes the sub immediately upon reaching the red color band on the depth gauge regardless of type.

Stock Crush Depth
 

Kaluen,

Due to battle damage I was plunging deep and reached 300+ meters before I succumbed to pressure. I screenshotted it so when Im out of game I will post it. :arrgh!:

From personal experience --shudders-- at least with GWX it is not instantaneous. I had the misfortune some time ago of being worked over big-time by depth charges. I was already at 240 meters, and took heavy flooding and had both electrics heavily damaged. By the time I could get the flooding stopped and the engines repaired I'd already had to blow the air flasks bone dry just to keep from plunging down. But because my batteries had also been damaged, I had less than 10% remaining charge left on them, and I couldn't make more than 1 knot.

Slowly yet surely I'd kept creeping down. Around 270 meters I started hearing that dreaded glass-breaking sound but with no (apparently) visible damage.. At first around one every 5-10 seconds. Then they started coming faster and faster, this time with compartments springing leaks, equipment getting damaged, and a crew whose voices started getting shriller and panicked.

It took perhaps 15 minutes from the time I got DCed to the time I crushed, and the pathetic thing was is that I'd 1) somehow evaded the two destoyers, 2) arrested a death-plunge, 3) fixed all the damage and 4) stopped all the flooding . . . but I simply couldn't do anything but very slowly keep sinking, meter by meter. :cry:

Kaluens,

Believe it or not I recovered from this dive by blowing ballast twice and ordering full reverse BUT by the time I got back to 199m I was at 12% hull integrity and what was left of my wet tissue paper hull..failed. :dead:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...eepestDive.jpg

This is a topic that i haven't figured out... :hmm:
1.- What is the diff between crash depth and maximum depth?
2.- An IXD2, how deep can it go assuming 100% of hull integrity?
Any comments about it will be very welcome! :up:
Thanks a lot kaleuns
CapZap

Not sure about VII and IX boats, because I've never pushed my luck far enough, but a recent experience in an XXI boat took me to 370 meters before everything folded up. I started taking hull damage around 350 meters so I'm guessing I could have safely hung out around 340 meters or so if I could have got the Elektrobrick under control. Mind you, the boat was completely intact up to that point but if I had sustained previous damage the crush depth could have been significantly reduced. SH3Commander's random values factor in there somewhere too, so the next time I may not get as lucky.

Chor

260 is nothing :arrgh!:

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...83681&page=232

check my post over there, mate ;)

Its real, i get depth charged after attacking a convoy, and my boat( VII b ) started to fill up with the water... Over 1000 m under me, and u-52 was sinking... i made a mistake because near 200 m i get control of my boat and i told chief not to surface... U-boat stared to sink again, and reached 346 m depth :arrgh!: i heard that presure was crushing my boat, and i knew its the end... U-52 get crushed at 350 m... Why there was no sand shelf under me? :dead:

The depths are variable in vanilla as well as GWX.
The type IX can not dive as deep as a type VII and the 7c about 15% more than a 7B.
Without damage (I am going from memory here) the 9s can do 235 the 7B 275 and the 7C 300 but that is if you get the roll of the dice that gives u you the very max. I would not suggest you do more than 200 for any 9 225 for a 7B and 250 for a 7C and you may find if you got the short roll of the dice that was too much.

Wulfmann

I used to use a mod that randomized the crush depths, but as was mentioned SH3 Commander now does that as well. You should never know the exact numbers, and you should never take chances unless it is absolutely necessary. We've all heard stories about captains of all nations taking the boat much deeper than rated, but how many of the ones who never came back died because their boat wasn't as good as some others? We'll never know.

that last part is not true, ive taken my IXB down to 280, and my VIIC sunk and hit bottom at 260, and did not crush or recieve more damage then what i took from smashing into the seabed.

One tip would be to take her deep a few metres at a time in x1 tc and watch the hull percentage drop a percentage point at a time. A clear indication you are starting to incur damage.