I am curious to see if SHIV will FORCE us to man the dive planes and ballast valve set while on surface, as in SHIII. I never understood this. In the books and movies I've read/seen it's usually the watch crew's function to man those stations. Remember the young kid in "Das Boot" Uncut who calls an alarm because of a seagull? Jurgen shakes him down pretty good about what type of plane it was while he is manning the (aft?) dive planes. Werner speaks of this as well in "Iron Coffins". I just thought it was a waste of three good hands that could be resting or doing something else, especially in the smaller boats. I would think they could program the watch crew to go directly to dive planes, helm & valve set when ordering a dive, instead of crew quarters, or TORPEDO ROOM (I hate when that happens)? Did U.S. subs handle this differently?
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