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[Intel Source: Midwatch Cowboy] As Idaho's first and foremost submarine blogger, I would be extremely remiss in not posting this:
Have you ever done a science experiment on the boat? I'm not talking about the standard "let's see what happens when we put a drop of silver nitrate on the sleeping guys face" type of stuff, I'm wondering about the stuff with actual scientific value, like "how small can the styrofoam cups get if we put them in a mesh bag and leave them in a free-flood area when we're going to test depth" sort of thing.
posted by Bubblehead at 4:46 PM
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We always sort of liked the old game to impress the newbies onboard by stringing a line across the Torpedo room and attaching a nut at the center and watching their faces as the line drew slack and the nut gradually ended up hitting the deck as hull compression did it's thing on the way to test depth.
My first boat would do things that really really would never be allowed today in the PC world the Navy has become.
After my first underway and it was for local ops drills and chills when I finally crashed in the rack I woke up tube loaded in #3.
Want to guess the odds today's guys to pass that test of your compatibility with subs?
5/06/2011 5:55 PM
Protocol involved
You were allowed to deck the guy who slid you into the tube but points were subtracted if you altered his dental record.
Wet whitey tighties gave two demerits.
The dude who put you into the lock and load position was obligated to buy your drinks on the next liberty unless you violated the dental exception above
5/06/2011 6:21 PM
The original 'spud submarine', a more advanced class with fairwater planes, was this one from 2007.
5/06/2011 6:32 PM
I remember my first turn at the dive and drive console. We were shucking the navigator with a left rudder turn when we were on station in a particularly boring section and did about a 30 mile wide loop from the continuous but slight left turn.
Just before we managed to get back to the 'ordered course' the OOD asked us what we were doing 30 degrees off course ......................the answer came back ...............coming back from 60 SIR
5/06/2011 7:22 PM
Question
If you are on your 20th day of a 3 knots by log tail and trail and you are on dive and drive how long will it take for the other guy to discover you have switched all surfaces control to single stick and he is really only going dead stick?
5/06/2011 7:33 PM
Well back in the 80's we took some raisins, sugar, water and yeast and put it in a poly bottle to see see what happened. Just kidding on that one. Though while standing Dive I talked the OOD into coming to all stop to let me settle down to the layer and ballast the boat so we were floating on the layer. When Nav center reported that we were going sideways about half a knot and zero fwd/aft I knew we were in like Flynn! We spent about 40 minutes there guys on the sticks loved it. Well I think it was cool...
FTB4evr
5/06/2011 8:01 PM
Had an ELT who was the M2LL watch (637 class) use the magnetic stirrer and feed flow gauge to plot our course, never leaving the space until after the watch was over. He went up to control after watch and compared it to the QMOW's plot and it was spooky how close he was.
PW
5/06/2011 8:15 PM
On initial sea trials in TREPANG in 1970 we calibrated a ruler to depth to measure the bend in a formica panel in the wardroom that was glued at top and bottom only. One of the shipyard workers looked at our rig and retreated to his bunk the torpedo room for the rest of the trials.
During a trip across the equator in BARBEL we determined when we had crossed the equator by the change in the coriolus effect of water going down a drain. In really did reverse in the Southern Hemisphere.
5/06/2011 8:52 PM
I was on a boat that had as our CO THE GOD of under ice. the authority and the go to guy on all that.
He forgot more about the ice than most people knew.
Only dude I was impressed with when he managed to back a 637 almost 15 miles down a ice canyon that scrapped the bottom at one point and declared you ain't going this way.
Trust me when I say 637's were not really designed to do backing down bells in a major way.
Out of that I managed to do three trips to the Blue Nose section and get to hit a ball on Tuesday and have it come down on Wednesday.
Love the orders from the OOD on the bridge when he told the naviguesser south my man , you pick which one.
5/06/2011 8:54 PM
We were 'way up North' on one run, and Maneuvering was plotting our position from the POD - Using
- Sunset minus Sunrise (hours of daylight)
- Time of Sunrise
- Time zone
The Coners went 'ballistic' and stopped including that info in the POD...
5/07/2011 5:51 AM
637's were pretty easy to drive in reverse submerged. We practiced doing it in preparation for our ICEX. One time I was EOOW and the ENG was the OOD and he had us driving astern for about 45 minutes. I finally called up to control to ask him how long we were going to drive around backwards and there was an immediate change to the engine order telegraph. He forgot that we were going astern some how. I ruined a fun time by the ship's control party, as the helm kept looking over his shoulder like backing a car and the ENG would tell him to mind his panel and miss the hint.
5/07/2011 7:51 AM
When I was in recruiting, one of the guys at the station was an A-ganger who had been with the DSV Unit in San Diego, and had a couple of styrofoam coffee cups that had been to 5000 feet.
Mighty impressive.
We did do some TTP's on what was the most efficient bell. Not a bad little science experiment there.
Then again, there were all those sleep deprivation experiments...
5/07/2011 8:13 AM
Anytime we went to test depth, I went straight to the crapper to get more time on that thing than anyone else.
5/07/2011 5:20 PM
Anytime we went to test depth, I went straight to the crapper to get more time on that thing than anyone else.
5/07/2011 5:20 PM
Electroplating with lantern batteries and various chemicals from the ELT's.
5/08/2011 9:53 AM
I expected more alchemy
5/08/2011 6:58 PM
@ NHSparky
5,000 ft is certainly unusual, but check out this one that Naval Undersea Warfare sent down to 15,000 feet.
5/08/2011 7:51 PM
The 2-star list is out. Submariners selected are:
Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Barry L. Bruner has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Bruner is currently serving as commander, Submarine Group Ten, Kings Bay, Ga.
Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Jerry K. Burroughs has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Burroughs is currently serving as program executive officer for command, control, communications and intelligence, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, San Diego, Calif.
Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Bradley R. Gehrke has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Gehrke is currently serving as defense attache China, Defense Intelligence Agency, Beijing, China.
Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) David C. Johnson has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Johnson is currently serving as program executive officer for submarines, Washington, Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
Navy Rear Adm. (lower half) Robert L. Thomas Jr. has been nominated for appointment to the rank of rear admiral. Thomas is currently serving as commander, Submarine Group Seven/commander, Task Force Seven Four/commander, Task Force Five Four, Yokosuka, Japan.
5/09/2011 11:55 AM
When is the 1-star list coming out? Isn't that usually before the 2-star list?
5/09/2011 5:04 PM
Excellent discussion on "SpudMarine!". I really learnt so many things here. Thanks for your work here. I appreciate it.
5/10/2011 2:01 AM
Does this include seeing how far the 4500 PSI shore air hose can stretch while playing shuffle boats by the tender?
ex-EM1(SS)
5/10/2011 7:06 AM
The MT's caught a palmetto bug and put it in a glass jar (with holes in the lid) to see how long it would live - 1 1/2 days.
5/10/2011 7:53 AM
Those Charleston house flies would last about a week, even feeding them with sugar.
5/10/2011 7:18 PM
I experimented with the coriolis effect by emptying a sink full of water as the boat crossed the equator. As the sink just gave is usual slow drain and burp I concluded that the coriolis effect does not exist ;)
5/11/2011 6:47 AM
I'm kind of surprised at the size of the coffee cup that went to 15,000 feet - I expected it to be smaller.
I have one from the NR-1 that went to 2000 feet - they custom ordered a bunch with the logo on the side and "I went to 2000 feet" (might be 3000 actually, I think that may have been before they declassified test depth). It was the same size as the one that went down to 15k.
Maybe styrofoam has a maximum density.
5/11/2011 2:19 PM
"We were shucking the navigator with a left rudder turn when we were on station in a particularly boring section and did about a 30 mile wide loop from the continuous but slight left turn.
Just before we managed to get back to the 'ordered course' the OOD asked us what we were doing 30 degrees off course"
Assuming you meant 30 miles in circumference instead of diameter, and doing 5 kts on station, this would have been nearly 6 hours -- a whole watch -- off course.
5/13/2011 9:25 PM
Bugs lifespan experiments! Our EMs got one to live for almost two weeks in the locker outboard of the EPCP. "Ernie" lived in a plastic baggie with air holes and a label "Ernie's Apartment". They brought him back little bits of food (surely NR didn't mean no food for Ernie back there, did they?) and even made him a sofa and chair out of a sponge. Ernie lived large for a week or two.
5/19/2011 7:34 PM
Get a large heavy glass bottle. Snitch some LIBR pellets from the boat. Spend a half hour shredding aluminium foil into the bottle,then add the lithium bromide and some universal solvent. A 'vigorous' reaction follows, producing hydrogen. Fill balloons and attach ladyfinger firecracker. Light, launch, get away.
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