Keep in mind, I have GWX installed.
I beat it! 499m! This has got to be a fluke in my game somewhere.
I wanted to test the Type XXI, since I've barely used it because of it's size issue. The first deep dive of 498m was made because I just wanted to see how deep she could go before problems occured.
This time, though, with 499m, it was because I was forced there. I was making an attack on a task force out in the middle of the North Atlantic. My two torpedoes hit their mark and sent the BB in the middle onto her side.
Obviously, the 6 or so DDs immediately started pinging me so I set myself up for a crash dive. I put all the men I could into my forward compartments and signaled for the crash dive. Suddenly, a plane out of nowhere DCs my position.
Thankfully, the DC exploded UNDERNEATH me, which is what caused the ruckus. I got thrown to the service in an uncontrollable ascent. Once I breached the surface, I immediately Crash Dived. within a minute I was below 100m....and it wasn't stopping!
No flooding, no nothing, it just wouldn't stop diving. Passed 200m, I started to worry. Passing 300m, I remembered my men were all in the forward compartment. So I moved as many as I could to the aft compartmants.
Passing 350m, it seems I had slowed her descent, only to find (thanks to the external view) that I was now rotating about the conning tower and was now descending aft first.
Panic started to set in because I had taken this career from 1939 until 45 and I didn't want to lose it like this. So as I passed 400m, I evened out my crew, hoping to at least keep the boat level.
Passing 450m, I noticed that my electric batteries were damaged, so I sent damage control to fix it. I was reallllllly worried because my boat was creaking and moaning like it was ready to crush. At 480m, the engines came back on, and the descent slowed to a crawl. At 499m I was able to stop ALL downward motion, and slowly start to make my way to the surface (or at least a more manageable depth).
I ascended very slowly, way slower than I have ever seen in GWX, until I passed 350m. Once I passed 350m, for whatever reason, flooding appeared in all compartments. I had flooding under control by 260m, and somehow...somehow I was able to evade the remaining DDs. Used up all my decoys.
Once I was in the clear, I slowly made my way back to Bergen.
The funny thing was that on my very next patrol, I was almost unable to dive with any sort of control. I pretty much had to blow ballast every time I went under. So my last two patrols saw me with 0 tonnage because of this.
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