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If you get hit by a depth charge at that depth, you ahve just enough time to put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye, where as at shallower depth,s you'd surivive such a hit.
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My experience as well - hull damage at >160m often means chain-reaction crunch.
About the sink time - it's important, for sure. If I can hear a DD over top of me and I'm at 160m, I know he probably won't get me. The worst thing was when I heard him off to starboard, moving ahead of me. He was moving fast, and gradually crossed my bow. I heard splashes over the whole process, and gambled that with the sink rate I'd get under them. They BLEW ALL OVER ME. Miraculously no damage - then - a single DC hit - i get about twenty quick reports (including Mediiiiiiic!) and the boat crunches. Anyways, that kind of situation might benefit from an impact estimate based on sink rate. I should have known the timing was bad and flanked out of there.