the timer tells you time before that compartment floods completely, if that happens your sub is lost. so if that is going down at any sort of rate you need to stop the flooding - take off silent running if you have it going and set your repair crew on that compartment. This is higher priority than evasion at this point. Providing you have some sort of depth to play with, you can crash around, sorting your flooding and avoiding depth charges, you aren't going to escape at this point making all that noise but you have good chances of avoiding further damage. once you have the flooding fixed you can look at other damage, for me I'm only fixing things that affect my able to move slowly, like prop damage, I don't want to be having to turn the working prop twice as fast (making twice the noise) in order to move at just 1.5 knots. Once you have flooding and critcal damage fixed you can go back to silent running and concentrate on evasion.
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