I would love to see all of these. It would also be nice to make decks awash infeasible except in calm calm water (like 0 m/s). Having the top deck below the waterline put the boat at tremendous risk in anything but very calm seas since it is inherently unstable in that position. The only KTB account I have read of running actually decks awash was U-995 in a Norwegian fjord.
As it stands though, I do use decks awash when I first surface, pop the hatch, do a quick scan before I completely empty the tanks, and then order them blown when it’s all clear, similar to history. That saved me last night because like an idiot I didn’t do a complete 360 scan with the scope and sure enough, the escort I thought was gone was right there off my beam (had turned around), luckily I got down in time before getting spotted in the fog!
In other words, it would be nice to have a feature besides decks awash that would still kept water in your ballast tanks, perhaps a “flooded down” state.
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