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Beery · 10-23-05, 10:40 PM

I just had the exact same experience as Jason210. I kept blowing ballast and stopping at periscope depth. I had some bad damage but the main thing I noticed was that the electric motors weren't working. I was still going along at 2kts, but the motors weren't working. Because of the damage I kept see-sawing up and down, alternately sinking and blowing ballast. Eventually I surfaced and got attacked and sunk. But it felt right. With a badly damaged boat things go wrong very quickly and the boat's trim is what tends to go wrong first.

10-23-05, 10:40 PM	#11
Beery Admiral Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Silver Spring, MD, USA (but still a Yorkshireman at heart - tha can allus tell a Yorkshireman...) Posts: 2,497 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I just had the exact same experience as Jason210. I kept blowing ballast and stopping at periscope depth. I had some bad damage but the main thing I noticed was that the electric motors weren't working. I was still going along at 2kts, but the motors weren't working. Because of the damage I kept see-sawing up and down, alternately sinking and blowing ballast. Eventually I surfaced and got attacked and sunk. But it felt right. With a badly damaged boat things go wrong very quickly and the boat's trim is what tends to go wrong first. __________________ "More mysterious. Yeah. I'll just try to think, 'Where the hell's the whiskey?'" - Bob Harris, Lost in Translation. "Anyrooad up, ah'll si thi" - Missen.