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Originally Posted by scandium
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.
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I saw a discussion about that not long after I posted
I was rigged for silent running and going ahead slow. Perhaps that was just too slow to maintain depth and when I advanced time I drifted down.
Thanks for answering though
