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Originally Posted by danlisa
So the result, running 'decks awash' with any boat is the fastest way to crash dive at any speed.
Don't want to be a boob  here but I'd assumed most knew this already. LOL, at least, we've tried to tell everyone. |
:hmm: I didn't know.
Idea of running decks awash hadn't rise in my head before I finally read about it on this Forum. So I suppose there are others who don't know too (if not it would mean I'm an extreme dumb, which is not true of course
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And I doubt a bit everyone here knew the details. For example, did you know that your crash dive time is shorter at 7 metres than at almost 8 metres?
Anyway, I would do the test no matter how useful they are to "the public". I'm just the type of commander who feels he must know his boat as well as possible. I also try to do some role-playing for variety's sake, so I keep training my crew and do many 'useless' crash dives with no particular reason, maneuvres at depths of 200 m, I erform regular service of the boat and so on.
As the Kriegsmarine "Submarine Commander's Handbook" says (1):
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[...] In order [...] to understand and master the tactics (i.e., of submarine warfare), it is necessary to be thoroughly familiar with the weapon, and its characteristics and peculiarities; for it is on these that the tactics depend.
In addition, complete success as a result of a thorough exploitation of the possibilities of the weapon can only be achieved if all the officers in charge of it are trained to think along the same tactical lines.
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