Having been under water for 3 to 4 months on a submarine breathing only charcoal filtered air all that time, when you first crack open the hatch and smell “fresh air” and realize it stinks like a paper mill or worse (kind of makes you nauseous), I can see how one gets used to foul odors.
Worked at a packing house and it took a couple weeks to get acclimated to the smell.
“smell “fresh air” and realize it stinks like a paper mill or worse”
Were you at Kings Bay? If so it actually probably WAS the paper mill outside Fernandina Beach. 😁
I was on a DE for years. The smell on a warship is a combination of a locker room smell and diesel fuel fumes.
There is no smell like ‘boat’. It gets in your clothes, hair, skin. Takes a bit to go away after a deployment. Good days on the 667 Bergall.