You'll be just fine, considering that warships and fighters seem to have an "awareness zone" of just a few metres. Fighters buzz by without noticing you, you have virtually collide with a destroyer for her to engage you, and if the droppings do hit the fan, they mess it up with poor AI and weak weaponry.
My story:
I was lurking near a British harbour and a destroyer amazingly spotted me. I was in shallow waters, with more DD's a stone throw away, and I was certain I was done for. But no, they all jumped at me at the same time and nearly ran each others down, and then spent considerable time going back and forth, trying to get out of each others' ways, just like ships humping quays and shoreline around ports.
Only once did depth charges get dropped anywhere near me, and when one exploded only a metre away, it barely did no damage at all (hull was down to 59%, but that was from other depth charges, too, and seriously, everything should've been shot to **** -- come on, the only systems that took damage only lost a few percents of hit points, and were repaired nearly instantly!).
Combat AI is broken. Plain and simple. I sincerely hope it's fixed in a mod or patch soon.
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As for the idea of letting the currents carry you through, the commentary on the Das Boot Collector's Edition says the captain knew it wasn't gonna work, and said it just to give his crew hope.
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