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Originally Posted by jimbuna
Pray tell kaleun...what did you have the misfortune to collide with ? :hmm:
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I haven't the slightest idea. I mean, I have an idea, but I have no idea why it happened.
I was in the middle of getting DCed by some more DDs on my way in to Scapa. They caught me pretty far out, in an area where it was about 213m to the sea floor. Knowing the limits of my sub, and the limits of the mid-1940 DDs and their DCs, I made the decision to "bottom" my boat.
I ran silent, changing course, until I was about 2m from the sea floor, which was about 216m down at that point.
So I lower my speed to 1 knot as I lower my U-boat the final few meters to the sea floor. All the while, 2 more DDs have joined the search, and have DCed me. No problems yet, most either miss me, or are far too shallow. Once my Nav tells me that we're 0m from the sea floor, I call all engines stop.
So there I sit, on the sea floor, waiting for the DDs to give up. At this point, they can't see me, they're not even pinging me. Two have cut off and the remaining two were still DCing the area.
I sped up the TC to that things would hurry up (sometimes it's a real bore waiting 5+ hours for those things to give up).
Then, for no reason whatsoever, I get the death message. Not from flooding, not from anything. No. I was told I had collided with something...despite my U-boat not moving an inch.