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Originally Posted by Wreford-Brown
If a compartment is fully flooded you'll lost the boat. If your pumps are destroyed and you can't blow ballast, the only way you'll go is down!
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In reality only a fully flooded diesel-engine-room (78 tons of water) was critical (speaking here only of the weight-problem).
Because the diesel-room was the largest-room in the u-boat (78 m^3), it was more or less at the end of the boat and so you have to take additonal 78t of water in the front ballast tanks to trim the u-boat. So overall 156 tons of water in the u-boat ... that was a probelm. A type VII could create only a
max buoyancy between 110 and 150 tons.
I am not quite sure about value "78 m^3". It could also be 86 m^3 or similar.. I am too lazy to check it. The number relates to a type VII.
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...29#post1920829