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ETR3(SS) · 01-18-13, 08:09 AM

With regards to your second question, if you're in a situation where you are blowing your ballast tanks you probably are intending to surface. Otherwise if you just wanted to change depth, you use the planes. So no, you wouldn't blow ballast and then turn around and re-flood the tanks. To do so would be a waste of a limited resource, compressed air.

01-18-13, 08:09 AM	#2
ETR3(SS) Ocean Warrior Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between test depth and periscope depth Posts: 3,021 Downloads: 175 Uploads: 16	With regards to your second question, if you're in a situation where you are blowing your ballast tanks you probably are intending to surface. Otherwise if you just wanted to change depth, you use the planes. So no, you wouldn't blow ballast and then turn around and re-flood the tanks. To do so would be a waste of a limited resource, compressed air. __________________ USS Kentucky SSBN 737 (G) Comms Div 2003-2006 Qualified 19 November 03 Yes I was really on a submarine.