Hi. My name is Steve, I'm a Security Supervisor in Sydney Australia, and I just turned 53 today. I spent most of my life working as a Technical Officer for the Royal Australian Navy, and the last few of my postings were sub-related. I was an Inspector of Naval Ordnance working at the RAN Torpedo Maintenance Establishment at the submarine base HMAS Platypus. I was supervising the assembly, disassembly, and testing of lightweight torpedos (Mk 44 and Mk 46). Lightweight torpedos are ship-launched, helo-launched, or Fixed-wing aircraft-launched anti-submarine weapons. I was also supervising the same processes on heavyweight torpedos (Mk48), which are submarine-launched anti-shipping and anti-submarine weapons.
My next posting was a weapons assessor, assessing Anti-Submarine Warfare exercises for the RAN Trials and Assessing Unit. In this posting, I learned the intricacies of prosecuting targets with modern torpedos (using sonar and search patterns to seek their targets). Very interesting job indeed.
I've played a few sub simulators, but have only just got SH5 so I've yet to form a firm opinion, except to say I don't like the DRM requirement to be connected to the internet to play. I also am addicted to a WW1 flight simulator "Over Flanders Fields: Between Heaven and Hell". Completely immersive sim.
I'm Vice-President of the Australian Society of World War 1 Aero Historians, the longest running Society of its type in the world. You can see what we are all about if you visit our website at
www.ww1aero.org.au
Happy hunting