Torpedo failures - weather related.

[banryu79]

Originally Posted by GJO

BTW I have read through the theses by David Haversham Wright and it appears to agree with my stance that weather and wave height was not the problem. This had been the initial reaction by Dönitz but it was subsequently proved not to be the case.

I have not read it all, I'm at page 78 out of 200.
But even at this point, I feel myself so lucky and blessed and experiencing a (too) easy life in the face of the incredible torpedo failures documented there expecially for the first months of war (I'm currently finishing my first patrol, October 1939).