McPherson
Banned
It sure does. Sam Dealey was one of the rare few. He's also a textbook case of how hard it is to pick good skippers, because he got bilged out of the Academy. (IDK why...) And there was somebody else (whose name I can't recall... ) who was bookish & mild-mannered, but one of the best the wartime Sub Force had. And O'Kane reportedly had a real braggadocio, but turned out to be ice cold under fire. Go figure.
William H. Brockman, who may have been the real life inspiration of that frankly incompetent, Captain Remius of "The Hunt For Red October". He went on to school many of PACFLTS good sub skippers right off the USS Nautilus.
The idea is never to let the can get that close, unless you have no choice. There are safer options than this.
Like turning back on him to get under and inside his hull acoustic shadow and sonar myopic search, get astern and beneath and then feed him a CUTIE from the stern tube up the screws. If he tries to counter-turn on you before you dive under him, its yo-ho-ho and a three spread into him broadside and a meatball painted on the conn overhead with the 102 other meatballs US submariners painted in a PACFLT Mexican Hat Dance outcome.
I wouldn't count on it. @McPherson & I once went back & forth a bit over deck-mounted rockets being an anti-escort weapon, & he correctly pointed out the tincan skippers were willing to risk their ships--if they're any good at all. IJN ASW was awful, but don't think their crews & skippers lacked nerve--just skill at the job. RN, RCN, & USN had both, so this won't work against them.
There are modern examples of stupid navies (Russians and Iranians) playing with the idea, but the chances of success are near zero and of own goal way too high to make this option even a banzai option.
You're making it harder to be successful... If that mine actually floats, it's going to swing on that tether like a kite, making it damned unlikely to hit the desired target, & more & more likely to foul the screws.
Do the Mexican Hat Dance.
Targeting an anti-escort mine?
Which was one of the first objections raised...
Know what Dewey did when he passed through the Spanish minefields at Manila Bay? Lookouts paired with his best marines to look for bobbing objects were stationed at the bow of the flagship. The marine riflemen shot at weird stuff they saw in the water. Might have hit a mine, might have not. Two exploded way short of the Olympia, so who is to say? I say it was excited Spaniards who detonated command mines too early, but ... maybe?
WW II CAPTOR.
It's hard, but not impossible. The key issue is probably thinking of doing it to begin with.
I think I concluded that the sea water battery tech was not quite ready.