[Hylander_1314]

I would leave things as they are. When one gets greedy, it usually winds up costing more than that which one gains.

Don't worry about how deep the Balao will go. I had one down to almost 700ft once evading DDs. There were 9 of them trying to end my carreer. It was the worst DC attack I had to endure, they just didn't want to let us go. I guess since I fired 3 fish at 2 different BBs and sank one with a single torp. I must have hit the magazine just right by the turrets A and B in front of the bridge. The other two fish just helped her to heel over and go down by the bow. The second BB was left dead in the water. 3 hits in the area of the engine room. The stern was slightly submerged, but not enough to take her down, so I had to wait until the DDs were satisfied that they had either sunk or lost me, 9 hours later, and 5 NM from the last BB. We waited as they left the area, and manoeuvered the boat under the dreadnaught until they were beyond 25 NM distance. Had the bow tubes reloaded, but decided to use the stern fish to finish the big boy off.

But at that depth, the boat creaked and groaned so bad, that I thought we would never see the sky and the sun and moon again. It was nail biting as we were constantly pinged no matter what we did. They tried to constantly box us in with DCs and only through sheer luck were we able to out run their ash-cans before they got close by going ahead flank, and then cutting to all stop and coasting down to 2 knots since at those depths the boat was hard to maintain depth with. She kept needing more speed to keep from sinking deeper. But I did notice the deeper the more speed needed to maintain constant depth, but slowing and letting her go deeper, and then increasing speed would bring her back up to depth, and then slowly let her go down and repeat the process.