Visible ship damage is just eyecandy and has nothing whatever to do with the actual damage. Proof is that if your sub is shown with a big hole in it, you can still submerge and much of the time repair the damage at sea.
Lots of people have complained that deck gun holes cannot be seen on the target and assume that means something. Wrong! Visible damage is just eyecandy, unrelated to the real damage the target has sustained.
I have torpedoed dozens of targets which showed no physical damage at all, but still sank. I've concluded that the eyecandy, including fire, explosions and holes has very little relation to the actual damage the target sustains. Sometimes, as in the sub with a hole in it, the eyecandy overstates the severity of the damage and sometimes as in the untouched target that sinks, the eyecandy understates damage.
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