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To: LS
Speaking for myself, I would be uncomfortable and cramped riding in a submarine. I'm almost 6'4 and I'm quite sure my head would hit of lot of objects as their ceilings are quite low.
10 posted on 10/26/2014 4:54:15 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76

We had a guy on our boat that was 6’8” and he did fine. Maybe he was just used to ducking everywhere even outside of the sub.


21 posted on 10/26/2014 5:27:49 AM PDT by OA5599
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To: SamAdams76

Yup you wouldn’t fit in...they are “overheads” not ceilings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_nautical_terms

LOL


22 posted on 10/26/2014 5:29:09 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: SamAdams76

You really need to take a tour of a modern day submarine. They’re huge.

This ex destroyer sailor was absolutely amazed at the roominess of a Los Angeles class sub. The overhead in one compartment had to have been well over ten feet.


35 posted on 10/26/2014 6:07:25 AM PDT by Bob
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To: SamAdams76

Have you been on one? I toured the USS Gurnard, a SSN, back in the 1980s and I’m short and it STILL was a squeeze. Talk about claustrophobia.


46 posted on 10/26/2014 6:38:30 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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