Test Dive advice?

Originally Posted by King_Zog

Yes me too, although I don't always sink, sometimes the boat wants to go up rather than down. But this is more realistic no? I was under the impression that U-Boats could not hover at a certain depth and need a certain amount of forward motion to maintain depth. Although I can still hover at periscope depth while stopped with no problems, although that's fine by me.

Well like he said it depends on your depth. The boat needs a positive bouyancy (Sp??) to float up and a negative one to float downward. At a certain depth mathematically there is no way that the boat could achieve even a neutral bouyancy to maintain depth, so all it will do without momentum is sink. The way I see it is each depth has a certain amount of bouyancy required to overcome it, more being required the further down you go because of the weight of all of the water on top of you. At least thats how it makes sense in my mind. If anyone really knows why please do prove me wrong, I don't mind learning a new thing or two