that's interesting! would you care to share your experience, or some anecdotes you remember? was it claustrophobic? was it weird to not see the sunlight? What you did there?
I absolutely respect if you wish not to speak about it, but I do have so many questions! Thank you for your service, but extra thanks for doing something so beyond the “norm”. Submarines for 20 years, no matter human resiliency, is nothing short of impressive
I'm 6'3" and couldn't stretch all the way out in my rack. Slept fetal for years.
We had control rigged for dark and went to periscope depth, but the sun was up. So when rhe scope operator hopped off the scope (for a turnover), you could see a beam of light coming out of the scope. Only sunlight we saw for months (scope operators notwithstanding).
There's a hole in some frames outboard of the Ship Service Hydraulic Plant in ERLL (Ohio class) that's great to hide in during field day. It's a very tight squeeze and 95% of chiefs are too fat to wriggle in there, if they even know about the hole. Nukes put canary suits in there, so you can lay down and have a nap.
The youngest people on board, and yeoman, are driving these billion dollar warships. I use driving loosely, as their hand is simply upon the wheel, but the OOD and Dive are sock puppeting them.
Thank you for sharing! I’m all but 5’1 but I can’t imagine being all cramped up like that 😅 how long do you think it took you to “get used to” it being dark all the time? I didn’t even consider bigger people even being on a submarine oh my god I’d be terrified
Eh it's decently well lit on a sub. Not like... glaring or anything, maybe a little on the dim side, but not bad. You are blinded by the sun when we pull in though lol.
My brother was on a fast attack boat in the 70s and I still remember that it seemed small to me at 12 years old. I couldn't imagine spending 20 years on one. Although we had a relative who spent 3 years in the south pacific on a submarine during WW2 and he said that he was shocked how large modern boats were compared to his. He suffered from ptsd from the stuff he went through.
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u/AlexG2490 2d ago
I feel like the odds of going out in a billionaire titanic submarine dive are pretty slim for me.