Could very likely have been a malfunction. Crew might not have reported it due to inexperience.
Anyway, glad you got back to the surface! I've had some close calls like that before. Had my VIIC sink to 230 meters, and I thought I was dead. Massive depth charging had destroyed my radio and blown a huge hole in the forward crew quarters area. Water was flooding into the torpedo room, forward crew quarters, and the radio room (along with a bit of flooding in the control room). We sank quite quickly, and when the depth meter went to an extreme, I was certain I was doomed. At the last minute, however, I heard a thud and we stopped falling, although we took a bit of damage upon hitting the sea floor around Tunisia.
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