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Originally Posted by Shirkon
Having served on submarines for 30 years before my retirement I wouldn't suggest trying to move fore or aft when the sub is either diving or surfacing with any angle over 5-10 degrees. Even standing in one place normally requires you hanging onto a piece of equipement while having one foot on the deck and the other on a bulkhead. Any movement fore or aft is a hand over hand chore with the distinct possibility of losing your grip and being face planted up to 30 foot away into a (hopefully) bulkhead or catching the edge of a hatch or stanchion resulting in serious injury. All this is in a modern submarine where water condensation is minimal. In one of the old DB's with condensation on the decks it would have been even more hazardous.
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Makes sense. The only time I had a real problem with it was when the boat was submerged and trying to evade an escort. It had taken damage, was flooding and had a slight tilt to port. When the tilt occured, I was at the hydro station (doing the soundman's job...
again) and couldn't reenter the CR. I wanted Chiefy to reduce flooding but he was to far away for me to click on him through the hatchway. It would be nice if there was an option to click a "Hey you, come over here" button at times like that!
