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Re: Das Boot Question
Posted by:
Io Chrysafidou
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Date: July 22, 2004 07:31PM
Dear Mike,
U 96 had got orders to go to La Spezia, that meant passing through the Gibraltar Straits. However, it got bombed by a Swordfish biplane, ironically from the stranded squadron which used to serve aboard the Ark Royal. It dived once, had to resurface, and when the Kommandant ordered the second dive to avoid pursuers, the boat was too heavy, so it hit bottom. The problem was that the pesky PK-man (Werner, in the film) was in the Zentrale, where the device measuring depth was malfunctioning, so he noted down 280 m. Afterwards, the author kept this figure as more impressive and scary. The actual KTB is no help either, because the Kommandant simply noted down depth A+80 m., which was in reality some 160 m. deep.
For me, the uncontrollable dive near the Azores, where they must have reached 210 m. is much more dramatic, because there was no 'pocketful of dust' to stop their elevator-like free-fall that time.
Best Regards
Io
U 96 had got orders to go to La Spezia, that meant passing through the Gibraltar Straits. However, it got bombed by a Swordfish biplane, ironically from the stranded squadron which used to serve aboard the Ark Royal. It dived once, had to resurface, and when the Kommandant ordered the second dive to avoid pursuers, the boat was too heavy, so it hit bottom. The problem was that the pesky PK-man (Werner, in the film) was in the Zentrale, where the device measuring depth was malfunctioning, so he noted down 280 m. Afterwards, the author kept this figure as more impressive and scary. The actual KTB is no help either, because the Kommandant simply noted down depth A+80 m., which was in reality some 160 m. deep.
For me, the uncontrollable dive near the Azores, where they must have reached 210 m. is much more dramatic, because there was no 'pocketful of dust' to stop their elevator-like free-fall that time.
Best Regards
Io
