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Old 07-19-07, 06:12 AM   #7
Rockin Robbins
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Default Dive or crash dive?

In wartime, there was no casual "take her to periscope depth." EVERY dive was a crash dive and if desired they caught the sub at periscope depth as best they could. If you're just pushing "p" to dive, the real sub jockeys would laugh at you. There's only two kinds of subs: those who crash dive and those that die.

In practice, the gold standard was 60 seconds to periscope depth. Dives were practiced several time per day and if a dive was performed in over 60 seconds, woe unto the crew, for they would drill mercilessly until they could meet that standard. Good skippers tolerated grumbling crews who thought they were overdrilled because grumbling crews are still alive. A little action and a freighter or two in Davie Jones' locker will fix that just fine.
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