Just had a rather disturbing run-in with 2 destroyers.

[Red October1984]

I was sailing the waters between England and Ireland. 2 Town class DD's appear out of nowhere. I crash dive (never gets old in GWX) and at about 45 meters set speed 1 knot and set the rudder 5 degrees to starboard. I picked that one up here somewhere, one of these threads was talking about that tactic. Im not great at evading destroyers. So, i evade for awhile, not shaking the DD's. Several attack runs are made. I probably took 50 charges around me. No damage. I still havent shaken them. SO I GO DEEPER. 60 meters. The next attack run, sadly, was a hit. 3 charges right down the length of my sub. I scrambled to the damage control station. Every compartment was lit up and flooding badly. Mainly in the stern. I move all the crew into the bow. My damage control team sprang into action. They stopped the flooding seconds before it filled up the sub. I found that i was passing 100 meters. 5 of my compartments were lit up red. I had lost my batteries, electric engines, and diesel engines. So i just sank. I hit the bottom at 166 meters. The very edge between the yellow and the red on the depth gauge. Then all of a sudden, the stealth meter goes green and the pinging stops. The DD's cant find me. Whew! Now we play the waiting game. Now sadly, the story ends here, my computer froze up and shut down SH3. Ive made it through worse! Ive got an even better story here somewhere on subsim. The one with like 6 DD's and 3 Corvettes. I survived that one on sheer luck.