I can only imagine the nausea of the crewmen.
Also, SeaQuest 
I did manage to get round the sub exhibit at Chatham not long ago, but knowing it was dry docked was essential. Having said that, if you want a working colleague who is completely unflappable and a good person in a crisis, choose an ex submariner.
Nah, sometimes the entire sub implodes at once as it passes crush depth. And then there are the ones when the reactor goes bad…
The Maritime Museum at Sydney has an Oberon class sub (HMAS Onslow; still in the water, intact enough that it could plausibly be recommissioned if desired) that you can wander around in.
Worth a visit, but mind your head and shins. They ain’t roomy, and there are a lot of hard surfaces to bash into.
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I’d think that would be a quicker death. I can’t remember what film it was I saw on TV as a kid, but it scared me. And I later noticed, shit, like every single film with subs has this. (I guess a Sub not in danger of sinking has no tension.)
Ah, that’s more believable then, size-wise. I had forgotten that it was the Dallas.
When you see them in the water, they don’t look that large. When you see the boat in drydock, it’s astonishing how large they are. Both of my boats were built at Newport New shipbuilding and stationed in Norfolk. My second boat transferred to Pearl Harbor a year or so before I got out of the Navy. She was involved in a seamount collision in 2005, but survived because of the crew’s abilities and superior construction.
Part of my job as a sonar technician was to crawl inside the main ballast tanks and sonar dome to look for rattles and “sound shorts”. It was a view of a submarine that most never get to see and I’m grateful for the opportunity to do something fairly unique. As you can see in the post-collision photo, that area was seriously damaged.
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My stepson is a fire fighter at the Point Loma sub base in SD and part of his training is learning how to navigate around a ship during a fire/smoke situation using nothing but reference points and bulkhead markings. He has remarked that while it’s cramped - especially when carrying 70+ lbs of rescue breathing gear, it’s an incredible labyrinth of rooms and compartments inside.
A fire on a submarine is probably the worst possible situation imaginable. Because of the design for ventilation most of the decks are not actually attached to the sides which provides a ready path for flames and smoke to quickly permeate thru the entire ship. Suffice to say that quick fire suppression by the crew is critical otherwise the entire ship is at grave risk.
I dunno… As video background music goes, that is well above average, IMO.
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I’d have to agree… Most people think that flooding would be the hardest casualty to fight, but that’s a fairly straightforward process. With a fire, especially one that involves oil (like propulsion lube oil), the smoke is dense, black and it’s nearly impossible to see. That’s why we often hang blankets in the “area of the fire” during drills.
After I was qualified on the boat, I could move around the entire forward half of the ship by feel alone. There are bits of non-skid on the deck where ports for Emergency Air Breathing (EAB) masks are located, which is essential if you want to keep breathing.
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