How to maintain depth below 180 meters?

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Originally Posted by maillemaker

It seems you cannot go below 180 meters or so without becoming negatively buoyant and sinking at speeds below ahead 2/3. Doing so gets you detected, so I have just been avoiding depths below 180 meters.

What is the trick to depth maintenance below 180 meters? Just blow some compressed air? If I blow and rise, then drop below 180 again, will I stay neutrally buoyant?

Steve

I don't think you can maintain neutral buoyancy at those depths and will require a certain amount of speed for the hydroplanes to be used to maintain that depth. The fun really starts when you are damaged and have severe flooding and can only stop sinking by having the motors at flank speed when there are also 4 DD's circling above dropping depth charges, which is where I was at after my last convoy attack...

This is straight out of vdr1981 tips for TWoS

- Use manual diveplanes and underwater propulsion to maintain extreme depth. If your boat starts to sink don't panic, use some compressed air to obtain positive buoyancy (press blow ballast) and quickly command desired depth but NOT deeper than your current depth...

And here is a link to his youtube video demonstrating maintaining extreme depth...