They hung on as the plane made an emergency dive to a lower altitude when they pulled him back on board.
An emergency dive was ordered, but the submarine failed to submerge.
Deck guns managed to damage the Soviet submarine which by now had started an emergency dive.
Horsthauzen would probably have called him in another few minutes, if he had not been forced to make this emergency dive.
On 6 July she made an emergency dive when attacked by a Japanese plane.
U-155 made another emergency dive while shadowing the convoy at 1042, but Edison did not detect the U-boat.
"Slammed bombs all around the boat, doused their tower pretty well, but they managed an emergency dive."
The emergency dive was second nature.
The U-653 came out of her emergency dive and hung motionless in the calmer water beneath the waves.
A second torpedo also missed, but the deck guns managed to damage the Soviet submarine which by then had started an emergency dive.