Yes, it's possible to keep them from dying.. _if you manually cycle them from watch_ .
Once your 'Deck Watch' is damaged, it can never be repaired (permanently), and any crew left on the Deck will start to lose health. If you leave them there, they'll die. This has been discussed quite a bit, there's even a mod in the mod forum that attempts to solve the issue by making the conning tower invulnerable, but unfortunately it doesn't fix the problem.
If you haven't experienced damage to the 'Deck Watch,' then you're not going to experience that bug. Horrgakx's 'Deck Watch' IS damaged in his screenshots, and if he doesn't keep an eye on his crew, they'll die. It can take some time depending on how much damage there is, but I guarantee if he leaves the game running on high time compression for a few minutes, his watch crew will start dropping like flies.
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