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Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins
How are you measuring dive times? In RL dive times were from the order to dive until periscope depth was reached. Less that 60 seconds was the goal.
40 to 48 seconds would be unrealistically fast.
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From what I've read 30-35 seconds was the goal. 60 was a prewar standard time.
Silent Running talks about drilling the crew for 30-35 second crash dives and specifically states that slower than that is dangerous. Similar in other books I've read.
tater