Yeah, you can say that again! Read Gallant Lady: A Biography of USS Archerfish for a FULL rundown on that. Matter of fact, that's EVERYBODY's reading assignment to read a book that's altogether too much fun to hold all that information. Their job was to find the real limits of the design and they did it to the point of hurting people because of the steep angles. They were among the first to really violate the guidelines, which were not orders, but were treated that way during the war.
Put yourself in the place of a sub captain. You choose to dive at 25º (which turned out from Archerfish's tests to be perfectly reasonable) but something unrelated went wrong and you lose some crewmembers. It's inquest time and they start asking questions. "Did you exceed the guideline of a 10º down bubble on the dive?" If you answer "Yes" the inquest is over and they have their scapegoat. Bend over. I see military people smiling and shaking their heads to that one.:rotfl:
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