Catwoman...Why so Clueless + Clumsy at the End?

I suspect it's because the 'near-death' experience really SHOOK her (both literally and figuratively) - I don't think she had ever been in a situation like that before (when Robin kept firing blasts at the submarine) - and it also seems to me that she had a GREAT FEAR OF DROWNING. When she tells the Penguin that he knows she cannot handle water, I feel like it's way more than a mere allusion to the idea that cats hate water; I think she means that she's always been afraid of drowning (you know, somewhat like the late Natalie Wood, one might say).

This explains why she was "so clueless and clumsy at the end". Up until then, she had always been *IN COMPLETE CONTROL* of every situation - even when she was disguised as Kitka - and to SUDDENLY LOSE CONTROL ALTOGETHER like that, when the submarine was under attack, and to find herself in MORTAL DANGER no doubt shattered her confidence, and left her completely bereft of her wits AND her nerves!!

Note how her VOICE and manner of SPEECH change the minute the submarine is under attack - as she laments to the Penguin, and urges the Joker to do something because they "weren't meant for a watery grave". She no longer sounds like the nasty, domineering Catwoman - she sounds like AN ORDINARY AMERICAN GIRL IN PERIL; you can barely even understand what she's saying, whereas her diction is otherwise SINISTERLY CLEAR. She was clearly in EXTREME PANIC mode, and I don't think she got over that even when the submarine reached the surface of the water.

1.) I think she was "strutting around on the sub deck while everybody else is floundering in the water" for two reasons - (a) Nervousness and lack of composure due to the near-death experience/fear of drowning, and (b) In the hope that she would see the male villains somehow overpower and DROWN Batman and Robin in the water, before climbing aboard the deck once again (I believe that if Catwoman hadn't been shaken by the blasts before, and if she had her wits about her, she would have definitely screamed: "GET THEM YOU MOLLYCODDLES!" to her criminal cohorts while they were in the water. )

2.) I think her body was in complete FIGHT/FLIGHT mode after the submarine almost sank, and that she was subsequently driven purely by her NERVOUS SYSTEM rather than her 'mind' proper. First, she tries to FIGHT Batman and Robin - by PUSHING them into the water. She obviously hoped that the Joker, Penguin, Riddler and the other goons would be able to drown them, but when she sees them climbing aboard again UNSCATHED, her body/nervous system switches from FIGHT to *FLIGHT* mode, and she SIMPLY MAKES A RUN FOR IT, "neglecting to close the hatch" as she probably would have done under normal circumstances.

3.) Since her confidence had been COMPLETELY UNDERMINED by the near-death experience, which reduced her to a bundle of nerves, she looked "over her shoulder to see if Batman was coming".

4.) While she's "completely conscious", I think the reason she was "just laying there" was again because she was essentially SHAKEN by the entire ordeal and not in her customary frame of mind AT ALL. You can tell that she was basically reduced to a bundle of nerves by the fact that she DOESN'T SPEAK *ONE WORD* at the end.
The evil, super self-confident Catwoman that we saw PRIOR to the submarine getting attacked would SURELY have said SOMETHING to Batman or Robin, even when she was captured; at the very least something like: "Yes, I played you for a fool while pretending to be Miss Kitka!" or "You must feel pretty stupid, Batman!"
Instead, the BEST that she can rouse herself to do is to hiss and make clawing gestures at Robin - and that too is a DELAYED REACTION, which occurs after she has been sitting perfectly still FOR A NUMBER OF MINUTES.

The look on her face alone when Batman sees her unmasked reveals her 'shaken' state of mind - as though her nervous system has now gone BEYOND *FIGHT OR FLIGHT MODE* and simply *SHUT DOWN ALTOGETHER*.

What do you think?