The boat never fell to more than 200 meters and it did not stay under water for more than 24 hours.Īfter the bomb hit the submarine dived to about 20-30 meters and could be held there, but it was clear that this depth could not be held for long because the diesel engine room bilge was running full. And here it also becomes clear that in the novel and in the film the situation is clearly exaggerated to make it more dramatic. The war diary is quite interesting to read. It was the 7th war patrol of U-96 from 27 October 1941 to 6 December 1941 and the incident starts on 30 November 1941 at 22:35. Originally posted by FreekOly (aka Urfisch):I think the original ktb from that patrol is online at Yes, it is. I think gibralter is about 17 meters deep, so ya, they probably arent going to sink. If you think back about the situation? did they had any chance to stop the sinking? Did they sunk because of flooding (i don't remember any flooding) or did they sunk because of technical damage. Then the Captain ordered a crash dive, the bowplanes got stuck, the main ballast pump was disabled and something wrong with the ballast tanks? they try to stop the sinking with putting the engines reverse speed and using compressed air. The Captain ordered the boat at full speed through the strait of Gibraltar, pushing the engines to the limit, i recall the Engineer saying the engines got damaged? I recall that one of the bombs hit the U-96, there deckgun flew off, there navigator Kriechbaum got wounded, What actually went wrong during the sinking? Originally posted by Rafik1994:Everybody knows the famous scene of Das Boot, when the U-96 got hit by a British aircraft and sunk to the bottom of the Gibraltar strait.
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