[submarinerswife]

I once ran, literally, out of a sub that was not submerged. I was just taking a tour and became so claustrophobic that I couldn't stand it. If the people in front of me hadn't gotten out of my way I would have treated them like bowling pins. The man conducting the tour me told me I would never had made it as a submariner. Ha! I was breathing like I'd run a mile at high altitude and sweating like a pig. To this day I can't take a closed MRI. Brave men in those subs.

The first time I toured Husband's sub (USS Toledo 769) I was going up the ladder to the hatch. Husband stopped me and told me that if they had to evac, they would close the hatch below and this is where they would wait to exit the sub...I panicked thinking of being trapped between those two hatches.

[IonImplantGuru]

The first time I toured Husband's sub (USS Toledo 769) I was going up the ladder to the hatch. Husband stopped me and told me that if they had to evac, they would close the hatch below and this is where they would wait to exit the sub...I panicked thinking of being trapped between those two hatches.

Heh! NOW think about squeezing 5 or 6 men at a time in that escape trunk, if it ever came down doing the old 'blow & go' to escape the boat! That was the drill, so you could evac the max number of crew with the least cyclings of the trunk.