What happens when you dive below the maximum allowable depth?

[YourUncleDarnel]

Does the sub disintegrate like that minisub last year on its way to see the Titanic?

Last night as I was going through a tutorial on diving, I thought about going below 120 meters but couldn't bring myself to kill my men.

So, can anyone with first-hand in-game experience answer the question?

[Adam]

A Type VII can go to 200 meters with relative safety. I've not done it myself, but reportedly there's a chance of springing leaks. Also, if you're playing with realistic bilge on, at high pressures the boat will begin taking on water at a slow rate through the various holes in the hull. There will be bad noises, possible leaks, and, at some point below 200 meters, a sudden implosion and game over. You might get down to 240 or 250 if you're lucky...

I think that subs like the U-boat wouldn't implode quite as instantaneously as the Titan. Unlike a titanium / carbon fiber hull, a steel hull should compress and deform gradually before some part fails, although once it failed it would still be a pretty rapid even if not instantaneous death.

[YourUncleDarnel]

Over the years I have watched a few YT videos about real subs that dove too deep and came to a sudden and bad end. I doubt I will ever risk any of my subs like this.

[VanZan_75]

Got depth charged last night and dropped way below crush depth . Game seems to give you a chance to carry out repairs below crush depth for a limited time to try and save the sub ( no good for my sub as it was full of holes / most of crew killed ) . Eventually game paused itself and a notice popped up on screen to inform me that the sub was lost along with all the crew .

[DominicoMucci]

Type 7 can go to 200 metres, into the red in the guage but its risky.

The allies didnt know about this so thats why germans had such success early on, no allied subs could go that deep. The positive is you are safer there from depth charges, the risks are if you do get hit you are done for. At shallower depths you can do something but deep you are pretty much dead sadly.

[Rick Rawlings]

Originally posted by Adam:

I think that subs like the U-boat wouldn't implode quite as instantaneously as the Titan. Unlike a titanium / carbon fiber hull, a steel hull should compress and deform gradually before some part fails, although once it failed it would still be a pretty rapid even if not instantaneous death.

Also the Titan was most likely well over a mile deep when the implosion occurred. That's a mile of water trying to get through you to the center of the Earth, not just seven hundred feet of it or so!

[Davinci]

Originally posted by YourUncleDarnel:

I thought about going below 120 meters but couldn't bring myself to kill my men.
So, can anyone with first-hand in-game experience answer the question?

Start the Game and then Save it at some point of a Experiment !
Dive the boat to the maximum allowed depth, after a while with the right amount of leaking the game will just end with a list of casualties.

Nothing Spectacular is going to happen...

[SpaceBikerV]

You just get an instant game over screen. At least, in the older build that was the case.

[RAVEN]

Type VII/41 had a test depth of 250m without issue.

[Twelvefield]

Originally posted by SpaceBikerV:

You just get an instant game over screen. At least, in the older build that was the case.

That's still what happens. You get a bit of dramatic noise. The same thing if you suffocate your crew, minus the noise.

[Andi]

My freshly repaired type VIIb imploded at 260 in two different test runs. Its kinda unspectacular, bit disappointing but realistic I suppose.

[GrinderX9]

Last time I was sunk in my VII B I sank without any chanse of recovery. And the boat imploded at 380 meters. when you reach crush depth it have a random chanse of implotion and the chanse go up for every meter you are deeper.

But a while back I did some testing on the typbe IIB, and it have implotion depth of 200 meter, but I could still sitt at 204 meters for a while before implotion.

When you are deeper then safe depth (dangeroud dept) you have a random chanse of getting pipe leakse and that are super dangerous when you are deep, but the boat will not instantly implode.

I go belov 200 meters all the time in the type VII.

[ZeldaFreak]

There are 3 values. The game gives you a rated depth. Then there is the actual save depth, where there is a 0% chance to get crushed but you can get leaks. Then there is the range where you have a chance to get crushed at any time. For the VII C its according to the wiki (not well maintained) is the save depth 230m and the crush range 250 to 295m.

When you use the button to go to a safe maximum depth, the game stays way within the limits. You may want to go deeper when you can reach the ground or avoid depth charges.
A crush is not animated. You just get a game over screen.

You may run into that situation sooner or later on your own.

[Rina Ravyn]

So, IRL the VII C was rated for 165m. Engineers at the time rated its crush depth at 250m.

During the war, altho NUMEROUS accounts came out of type 7's surviving depths of up to 270~280m, those reports stop dead at anything deeper, extremely suddenly.

So its been broadly accepted that the realistic crush depth of the VII C approaches swiftly somewhere beyond 280m.


As ive been told by more experienced UBOAT players, the game treats this very simplified, but easy to understand.

U got your 150m Level, and your 300m level.

At 150 you got a random chance to have a hull breach, that increases as the depth increases.
At 300, in addition tot he chance of leaks, you now have a chance of just imploding, that increases as you fall down deeper.

[kaster21]

Originally posted by Adam:

A Type VII can go to 200 meters with relative safety. I've not done it myself, but reportedly there's a chance of springing leaks. Also, if you're playing with realistic bilge on, at high pressures the boat will begin taking on water at a slow rate through the various holes in the hull. There will be bad noises, possible leaks, and, at some point below 200 meters, a sudden implosion and game over. You might get down to 240 or 250 if you're lucky...

I think that subs like the U-boat wouldn't implode quite as instantaneously as the Titan. Unlike a titanium / carbon fiber hull, a steel hull should compress and deform gradually before some part fails, although once it failed it would still be a pretty rapid even if not instantaneous death.

You can get deeper than 250

[kaster21]

Originally posted by YourUncleDarnel:

Does the sub disintegrate like that minisub last year on its way to see the Titanic?

Last night as I was going through a tutorial on diving, I thought about going below 120 meters but couldn't bring myself to kill my men.

So, can anyone with first-hand in-game experience answer the question?

Check the Guide section for living life below, crush depth