[scandium]

Originally Posted by Khayman

I downloaded both mods and changed the crush depth of my IXC to 275 metres and chose "Don't randomize" and "Save changes" I attacked a conovy, then went deep to evade the escorts. "I think I'll go to 260m, seeing as my max crush depth is now 275m and my hull integrity is 100%".

The escorts didn't even get close to me, but I thought I'd still creep away at that depth. I advanced time and I died. My sub was crushed because I went too deep even though I never strayed from 260m

So be careful!

There's an interesting discussion in Das Boot (the book) about a U-boat's need for increasing amounts of speed the deeper it goes in order to avoid "sinking". Its kind of like a plane needing speed maintain altitude (and more speed to climb). I can't remember the details of the discussion, nor do I know anything of the physics involved or even if the game models it; but I wonder if, at whatever speed you were moving at you slowly (or rapidly in TC) lost depth and reached crush depth without knowing it due to this "sinking" effect at extreme depths.