[Stealhead]

I think the complaint was about dying not how the death scene looked.

And still if you have a damaged hull the higher the damage the lower the deapth will need to be for the hull to keep losing its integrity. So Id say if are sinking and you have hull damage already it may be too late. I think many guys think of the blow ballast as an ejection seat it is not.If you have a lot of water inside the hull it takes a much longer time for the blow ballast to get you to the surface if it can. And you are at adeapth that is causing damage to your hull the odds that you will beat the ever weaking hull to get above its new ever weaker crush deapth you wont make it and irs really a mute point anyway as death shall rain upon you from every gun in range hell they will throw the galley sink.

I decided to gun down a subchaser the other day as I had the guns advantage a 5in and a 40mm fired by me vs. the subchasers deckgun(caliber?) and 25mm AA. I pumped my milk bottles at the deckgun and suppressed it well enough that they only got about 4 shells off all missing but one or two where so close the 40mm crew did the "duck'' effect before they died and then I suppressed the 25mm and the decks with 40mm sweeps while the 5 in punched holes in the hull and they still did 1 point of damage to my hull just with the 25mm rounds though somehow not a single man in my crew got so much as a scratch! First time that has ever happed for me in TMO. They had better give me a Navy Cross and several Silver Stars to award my men. But is just an example of what the damage will do if they ahd got me with one shell my patrol would have been done there because of damage.