Schnorkel is great. It is very useful as you can go at high speeds submerged and you avoid planes and DDs. I have been bombed a couple of times while at schnorkel depth (I wasn't using the scope so I had no warning) but once it is available I always install it in my boat. In real life according to the book 'Iron Coffins' it took a long time to fit it to the whole fleet with grim results for the german U-Boat fleet. It was a brilliant design but it arrived too late to make any real difference.
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