>>ok so it sounds like your looking for the tower tub to just be covered correct?
I used 40 feet primarily because the diving officer reliably calls it out, and doesn't skip it. I was looking for solid benchmarks, and 40 feet was always being called out.
>>and crash dive is used to initiate the dive from an ahead std speed ging time for the sub to reach ahead std before diving.
I crash dived on standard speed because it is tuned to be the default cruising speed, and started my timer when the engine telegraph went to flank (not the sub, just the telegraph), because at that point, it's visual confirmation that the process has been initiated. Again.. reliable benchmarks. Another reason was, it was a virtual simulation of when a player would acutally use crash dive the most. On the surface while cruising, and hitting the C key in a panic on a SD contact or visual sighting of an aircraft.
>>and it sounds like a big grey area with no real answer but do they have specs somewhere on what the correct dive times should be or is it all guestimation based on logs.
From what i understand, and have read, a fleet had to be able to dive to periscope depth in 60 seconds at a minimum or it wasn't deemed fit for patrol. To carry that along further, crews worked to reduce that time, and ive seen reference to 35 seconds in two different books. Which is where reworking crew skills became a really nifty idea.
As an aside, another reason i used 40 feet as my mark to stop the crash dive timer is because the bow is deeper (probably 60 feet), and by that time the boat is well on it's way down.
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