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Originally Posted by Safe-Keeper
Yes, very likely so. Subs were on the surface "for days and days" a lot.
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My notion of drills would not be a big deal in the game, agreed... It would only appeal to realism nuts. However, you are incorrect in stating that WWII subs would cruise on the surface for days without diving. I have read many WWII patrol logs by US sub skippers, and they made regular dives when in transit to keep the crew in practice, adjust submerged trim as stores were consumed and take bathythermograph readings. We may just push a key to dive but a real WWII sub took a lot of skill to safely dive and keep trimmed, especially if you wanted to be able to do it quickly.
Here are some quotes from the first few lines of the first random report (from a patrol by USS Nautilus) I just grabbed off the web:
"0900 May 24, 1942 underway from Submarine Base. U.S.S.
WASMUTH escorted this vessel until dark. Made trim dive."
"May 25 to May 27 made daily dives enroute to patrol area
northwest of Midway."
"From May 24 until June 3 made routine dives."
Etc...
Here's the link if anybody's curious... I find these logs very interesting:
http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/1592/nautilus1.htm