Stuck at the bottom of the sea, 60-70m deep

[Fire Pixsel]

Hi, I am playing VIIB type u-boat and my submarine got attacked *a bit* by british ships, what can I do if I have a leak, no repair parts and not enough bouyance to go up? is there an emergency option to surface?

[DECAFBAD]

If you manage to isolate the leak to one room and pump out the other rooms, you will be able to surface via emergency blowing.
For this you have to select an officer first in order to have the option at the blowing manifold.

[Fire Pixsel]

Originally posted by DECAFBAD:

If you manage to isolate the leak to one room and pump out the other rooms, you will be able to surface via emergency blowing.
For this you have to select an officer first in order to have the option at the blowing manifold.

I did that option, I have -10% bouyancy. I had 30% of air only due to being chased non stop by a destroyer. And the room give -43%

[AmebaTRNK]

If you are lucky, there might be an incline on the sea floor ahead of you. Using it, you can ramp off that and then use the diveplanes and what gas you have left to surface (though the leak being towards the stern will help. You are trying to outpower your own sinking now). Make sure you blow the tanks before doing this, of course. If you still have luck left, you can breach out of the water like a whale and stay afloat long enough to charge up and pump the water out.
I used this strategy to get off the bottom of the English Channel with only five crew left and a submarine that held greater similarity to a pincushion than any German U-boat.

[Fire Pixsel]

Originally posted by AmebaTRNK:

If you are lucky, there might be an incline on the sea floor ahead of you. Using it, you can ramp off that and then use the diveplanes and what gas you have left to surface (though the leak being towards the stern will help. You are trying to outpower your own sinking now). Make sure you blow the tanks before doing this, of course. If you still have luck left, you can breach out of the water like a whale and stay afloat long enough to charge up and pump the water out.
I used this strategy to get off the bottom of the English Channel with only five crew left and a submarine that held greater similarity to a pincushion than any German U-boat.

thats the small problem, I am heading out of scapa flow, the seabed goes only down..

[Twelvefield]

I recently had a problem where my sub got glued to the ocean bottom, also in the English Channel. I had plenty of buoyancy and pumped out all the water but the sub refused to lift. I remembered that I had lived in Saskatchewan for 15 years (ugh), but the take-away is to rock the car out of the snowbank, meaning rock the sub off the seabed, forwards and backwards full throttle each way. That seemed to work.

[Alex Paen (ljekio)]

the main thing is that the depth is not greater than the pump can pump out.