I was just about to make a post about my own Gibraltar travails when I saw this!
So, I'm a bit of a noob to SH, but loving it quite a lot. I had completed my patrol, and decided to hunt in the Strait. I sank two medium cargo ships and an ASW trawler with my deck gun at around 1am. Emboldened by my glorious success, I decided to head straight for the port itself, noting that it is relatively friendly in terms of great depth nearby. I took out two more ASW trawlers and two warships while sneaking around the port, but alas, I got careless/impatient and turned the screws a bit too fast.
That brought along an A&B hunting me, so I raced to the depths, and made it without an issue. Yet, despite currently being at 190 meters, I've spent 2 hours at 2 knots to no avail. In fact -- quite the opposite -- I now have a total of three destroyers and a damned speed boat right on top of me.
It is a heck of alot of fun, no doubt, but also a bit annoying -- I would have thought I would have shaken them by now. Is it possible to speed up the game past 8x when you have surface contacts so close?