Unable to dive below 450 ft in TMO.

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Originally Posted by RRoosevelt

I am in the Shark, a Porpoise class boat. If the master depth dial is the one between the bow plane guys, it only goes to 450. Do I need to fiddle with a setting somewhere or is there another gauge I am missing?


Many thanks

The gauge you need is in the conning tower at the helmsman's station. Some boats were not capable of going below certain depths simply because they couldn't hold enough negative ballast. I don't know what the depths are on the boats. I rarely go below the 450 feet.