Damage repaired, still going down

foo_jam2002 · 12-05-20, 09:30 AM

I was wondering what was wrong with a situation i've been. My sub was detected by a destroyer because i increased my speed to catch up and shoot from 90° and while manuevering i was depth charged.

We had some minor damage to the propeller and in the stern quarters and while going down, we managed to repair everything. At that point, we were at maybe 90 meters under water. Then i tried to come up at various depths, 40, 50, even at periscope depth but the sub kept going down slowly. The speed was slow but 1 knot instead of 2 and silent running was on (off while repairing).

Different speeds also didn't bring us up so i blew the ballast and the sub went up then down again. I did it one more time with the same result. I considered this save invalid so i tried as a test to surface the boat and it worked. But it's not what i wanted, i wanted a slow speed and i would get away as i have done before, not a battle with a destroyer in the surface. So i had to load a previous save.

Any thoughts on what happened are welcome. Cheers.

12-05-20, 09:30 AM	#1
foo_jam2002 Sailor man Join Date: Nov 2016 Posts: 49 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Damage repaired, still going down I was wondering what was wrong with a situation i've been. My sub was detected by a destroyer because i increased my speed to catch up and shoot from 90° and while manuevering i was depth charged. We had some minor damage to the propeller and in the stern quarters and while going down, we managed to repair everything. At that point, we were at maybe 90 meters under water. Then i tried to come up at various depths, 40, 50, even at periscope depth but the sub kept going down slowly. The speed was slow but 1 knot instead of 2 and silent running was on (off while repairing). Different speeds also didn't bring us up so i blew the ballast and the sub went up then down again. I did it one more time with the same result. I considered this save invalid so i tried as a test to surface the boat and it worked. But it's not what i wanted, i wanted a slow speed and i would get away as i have done before, not a battle with a destroyer in the surface. So i had to load a previous save. Any thoughts on what happened are welcome. Cheers.