If you want a survival challange without fighting, try being a weather boat in late 1943. Stay in your patrol square and on the suface as much as possible, you need to take those meterological measurements since the Luftwaffe and OKM are depending on them.
Take a Type VII, any flavour and sail to an area south of Greenland or north of Bermuda sending status reports three or four times per day for a month. If you last that long... Ignore the BdU replies telling you to "Be More Aggressive", you're doing a necessary and dangerous job.
A quick review of Blair or Rohwer reveals a number of boats were destroyed on weather reporting stations. U-Boat captain's hated weather reporting duties and using GWX (cannot speak for stock or the other mega-mods) it's easy to see why.
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