"During a crash dive, some malfunction happened and the boat went down uncontrolled.
Order back emergency and blow main ballast. Damage to the forward compartment and tubes, boat went to 580ft before stopping and rising.
When levelled, went head flank and and had to blow half the tanks to rise.
My torpedo chief had his morale broken (first time I saw that).
After surfacing, repaired were made and with least of a half a tank of fuel, ordered return home."
Interesting. Wondering what caused the uncontrolled dive. Close call for sure.
Did you crash dive for a plane? Did plane drop bombs? Residual damage to dive controls from previous attack perhaps.
You're into a period of campaign now where its tougher to find targets, especially in open waters, traffic shifts to coastal areas. A lot of night surface work ahead for ya lol.
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