I never can see anything at night. I think my attack periscope night vision is damaged.
Your story reminds me of a custom mission I tried. As soon as the mission commenced (within 10 seconds), my boat was shelled repeatedly and was destroyed before I could dive to safety. I replayed it ten times at least. Each time my boat was destroyed. When I finally was lucky enough to submerge, survive a barrage of depth charges, and repair the damage, the attackers had sailed far away. Turns out that Peabody advised me that I had selected a mission where I was required to activate a playable Fuso and join the very enemy task force that had been bombarding my boat. Because I failed to activate the Fuso, my submarine popped-up at the outset of the mission smack in the middle the Japanese task force and was the proverbial sitting duck. I would summarize the experience as one resulting from a failure to comphrehend the mission. A HUGE, very BASIC mistake.