How do you determine U.S. Sub crush depth?

[Charlie901]

Originally Posted by peabody

Charlie,
in the 'stock' game if you click below the depth gauge it will bring up a different guage that goes to deeper readings and that has a red needle which I was told is what the "manual" calls the red area, I guess in one of the other SH games it was actually red and green. Or you could just keep going down until it crushes. I have been beyond the red needle when flooding so as Torplexed commented there is no definate number. But, you can think of it like bending a piece of metal back and forth, sooner or later it will break. Not the same reason a sub fails, but the more time you subject it to high pressures the weaker it gets. If you have hull damage from depth charges, you may not even get to periscope depth, there will be a "Hull damage" number in the upper left of the "Damage control" page. So if you get DCed and get hull damage or Bulkhead damage, be conservative about how deep you go until you get back to port and get it properly fixed. The damage crew can only put a bandaid on it. (In fact they can't do anything about the hull, but they will say the bulkheads are fixed.)
Peabody

Super thanks for the info!