As a sailor, this is an ever present danger.
Always.
In the time I spent at sea, being attached airwing, I was fortunate enough to spend the majority of it in areas such as the flight deck and hangar bay where the possibility of being trapped in a flooding compartment was less, but I assure you, I felt that advantage acutely over the ship’s company who labored far below decks.
Those guys have guts.
Plus the air on the upper decks is just more breathable.
The flight deck of a carrier is always a dangerous place. There have probably been more sailors lost while working on a flight deck than from a flooding situation after a collision. Right now wer are focused on the recent tragedy and rightly so. God bless you and all of those who serve.
My battle station was in a 5th deck magazine packed with high explosives well below the water line. I felt very safe and secure in my steel cocoon. The real heroes were those who worked on the flight deck, exposed to the weather with nothing between them and the enemy but a few layers of cloth.