Yeah, I'm afraid the couple times I've found myself hanging out at the bottom it wasn't exactly part of my strategy... rather a welcome gift to keep me from sinking below crush depth.
Bottoming out like that and then managing to make repairs and deal with the flooding and then slowly limping away from that ever present DD, was actually some of the best gaming time I've had with SH3. Very "Das Boot"-ish...
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