Bismarck also used her main and secondary batteries to fire at maximum depression to create giant splashes in the paths of the incoming torpedo bombers.[85] None of the attacking aircraft were shot down. Bismarck evaded eight of the torpedoes launched at her, but the ninth[84] struck amidships on the main armoured belt, throwing one man into a bulkhead and killing him and injuring five others.[86] The explosion also caused minor damage to electrical equipment. The ship suffered more serious damage from manoeuvres to evade the torpedoes: rapid shifts in speed and course loosened collision mats, which increased the flooding from the forward shell hole and eventually forced abandonment of the port number 2 boiler room.