I'm thinking they set whatever their equivalent to condition Zebra is when the casualty got called away.
Bilge alarms, trim or list changes and deadlights would be the only ways they would have to determine if the compartments were flooded so it would have taken time to figure out if the compartment was safe to re-enter.
Shaft seals depend on seawater for lubrication; pumps secured by power loss or electrical bus shifts would have to be restarted locally, which of course is dependent on being able to re-enter the affected compartments.
Under those conditions modified Zebra should have been already in place. Just the most essential hatches left open without dogging. Yea even back aft there's a bunch of stuff can go wrong including the firemain rupturing which could in seconds pour in more water then the above mentioned. On a ship that small the gears may have been operational via a hand pump if they could get into the space. My guess is they towed it ASAP or it was underway on a reduced capacity to a shipyard. The Enterprise fire I think it was showed it underway and smoke boiling from the aft section. We need a Hydraulics systems Snipe in here and he could clarify a lot. I was A-gang but I was AC&R. But I was also a fire fighter too in the yard periods {1 on 1} so I know DC protocols :>}