In his book Skipper Crider once followed his torps towards target to try and throw off "Cans" in the shallow water of the South China Sea.I don't remember if he shut down everything and sat on the bottom,but the Flasher survived.If I was a WWII submariner,I would curse my luck if my mission was to patrol in shallow water areas.My guess is that most submarines that were lost,were lost in shallow water.
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