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Originally Posted by Von Tonner
Yes, there were no "integrity" guages, but visual inspections of hull damage, both internal and external, even sending someone under the hull once surfaced to inspect it would give a captain a pretty shrewd idea what strain his boat could endure given the damage it might have incured...
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That is, as far as I can tell, a wildly optimistic view. What evidence do you have to support your assertions? At sea, as I understand it, there was absolutely no way to judge a hull's integrity apart from by diving the sub to test depth. Even if the commander had metallurgists on board, they could not adequately inspect the boat while at sea, and even if they could have done so, they had no way to make repairs to the pressure hull at sea. What you're suggesting seems so far beyond what was possible that it seems to me a fantasy.