Does sitting on the bottom help you at all?

Tricky · 05-14-07, 06:00 PM

It seemed to work for me on my last patrol. Botched a convoy attack just south of ireland and got dc'd pretty bad. Ended up sinking to the bottom and hitting with quite a bang. 137 meters deep. Because of the positive bouancy(sp, whew!) effect in gwx (after i got damage under control), i had started floating back to the surface. Around 128 meters they started detecting me again, but once I got settled in on the bottom and stayed there, I didnt once get detected and the escorts eventually sailed off.

In my opinion, it was the only thing that saved me from certain death.
Limped back to port with:
stern tube destroyed
stb and port electric engine destroyed
electric engine room compressor destroyed
port diesel engine destroyed
aft batteries destroyed
con tower heavily damanged

05-14-07, 06:00 PM	#9
Tricky Sailor man Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 47 Downloads: 36 Uploads: 0	It seemed to work for me on my last patrol. Botched a convoy attack just south of ireland and got dc'd pretty bad. Ended up sinking to the bottom and hitting with quite a bang. 137 meters deep. Because of the positive bouancy(sp, whew!) effect in gwx (after i got damage under control), i had started floating back to the surface. Around 128 meters they started detecting me again, but once I got settled in on the bottom and stayed there, I didnt once get detected and the escorts eventually sailed off. In my opinion, it was the only thing that saved me from certain death. Limped back to port with: stern tube destroyed stb and port electric engine destroyed electric engine room compressor destroyed port diesel engine destroyed aft batteries destroyed con tower heavily damanged