It's an incredible experience! Each guest is assigned a duty station an recieves a duty station card. The card shows what your role is and who you emulate from the real crew. I forgot his name at the moment but I was a Lieutenant Junior Grade up in the con leading the fire control team, and was one of the survivors.
The experience starts with the Tang at periscope depth, surfaces to engage the enemy merchant ships. The 24th torpedo launches and curves around. When it strikes the entire sim begins to shake and rattle. The lights flicker and compressed moister is pumped out to simulate flooding. You try to control it but then as more smoke fills the lights (which were rigged for red) go out completely and you're left in the dark as you hear the bulkheads collapse above you... And then nothing but silence.
I cannot begin to fathom life on a real one of these. You truly had to be of a special nature to handle the demands of sub service. Even in modern times.
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