Interesting question. Not sure why you'd want to, you're likely to get crushed that deep. But if you want to, you should be able to go below 450, I agree.
Haven't tried going that deep since patching to 1.3 so I tried it and it was strange to say the least. Ordered crash dive while surfaced and the dive was alarmingly fast at 1st but the deeper I went the slower the dive got.
At about 440 feet it was taking 5 or 10 seconds to dive 1 foot. At 447 feet I couldn't get any deeper. Boat was fine, no damage to pressure hull.
Tried to get deeper by ordering a normal dive, no effect. Then ordered a crash dive and things got strange. Boat started rising as if I'd blown tanks for emergency surface!!! In about 15 seconds I'd risen about 100 feet and kept rising despite repeated "crash dive" orders. Then all hell started breaking loose - pressure hull damage, flooding, various systems destroyed and the boat was still rising :hmm:
Ended up with me losing the boat of course. Strange...
Seems almost like the ocean is treated like a sheet of tightly-stretched rubber - takes no effort at all to press down on it a little bit, but the further you press it down, the more effort is required. As indicated by the inital crash dive from the surface which started very quick, but the deeper I went the slower the dive got.
And then that weird "rebound" when I ordered another crash dive at 447 feet - it's like that "rubber sheet" let go and launched me back to the surface.
Strangest part though is how I didn't get any crush damage until that uncontrollable ascent happened...
FWIW, I'm running 1.3 patch and TM 1.3a. Boat is Gar class, Dec 1941.
DH
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