S boat loses..pic heavy

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Originally Posted by TorpX

Yeah, I was just kidding you there. Actually, considering the frightfull angle the sub was at, you did pretty well.


I had a VERY short career in SH 3 once.

I took my type II boat under for a test dive (the first).

I figured a German boat can go a lot deeper than US boats.

I figured there would be plenty of warnings before I reached crush depth.

I figured wrong.

Same thing happened for real to the USS Thresher on April 10th 1963 a new US Sub went out with full compliment of crew. It signalled that first dive was to commence and that was it!...was never seen or heard of again.

It is thought it went past test depth and just kept going, unable to stop, in water that was deep....very deep at over 8400 feet!