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Originally Posted by TarJak
I regualarly dive to 200m immediately after firing my eels in a VIIC. If I have a VIIC/41 I go to 240m this never causes too much concern unless I am carrying damage.
When you pass the "crush depth" of your boat, you will start taking damage until you get the boat up out of the danger zone. The crush depth will reduce the more damage you take so the shallower you will need to go to get out of trouble.
I had a situation in a VIIC where normally I can get to 240m without too much trouble. I'd been hit by some rounds from an aircraft that surprised my boat on the surface. After evading them I was lining up on my next target fired my eels then dived for cover to evade the escorts, got to 180m silent running and the lights started to flicker and flash (first indication that you have reached your crush depth.
AS the DD's were circling above I took advantage of their deafness after some DC explosions and blew tanks and hit full forward to take the boat up to 140m which I assumed would be safer. Luckily for me they didn't hear that noise or mistook it for our demise and about 15 mins later left the scene to rejoin their convoy now minus two ships thanks to the eels doing their work.  |
I just took my IXB to 240 meters and still could have gone more.
I was evading some DD's and just did the hard run when the DC's where going off and changing course lots and managed to escape.
I am still to get a successful attack on an escorted convoy with gwx 3.0
I found 4 ships un escorted and went to town on them then realised
They where neutral
. I have learnt to check the flag. if in doubt I let it go.
