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Werewolf13 · 07-09-07, 08:22 PM

In the book Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane he states that while on sea trials he took the Tang down to 625+ feet. He mentions that the depth gauge pegged out at 600 feet.

While serving on USS Sandlance, SSN-660 the very first watch I stood was monitoring a pressure gauge in the Engine Room Upper level while doing angles and dangles. I was on sound powered phones and was required to read out the pressure at regular intervals during the exercise. Boring as hell and at the time I had no clue why I was doing it (backup to depth gauges up forward). So if WWII subs had pressure gauges it would have been easy for them to keep track of depth using pressure - someone could have just made a table that could have been read from.

07-09-07, 08:22 PM	#11
Werewolf13 Torpedoman Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: The HEART of Fly Over Country Posts: 120 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	In the book Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane he states that while on sea trials he took the Tang down to 625+ feet. He mentions that the depth gauge pegged out at 600 feet. While serving on USS Sandlance, SSN-660 the very first watch I stood was monitoring a pressure gauge in the Engine Room Upper level while doing angles and dangles. I was on sound powered phones and was required to read out the pressure at regular intervals during the exercise. Boring as hell and at the time I had no clue why I was doing it (backup to depth gauges up forward). So if WWII subs had pressure gauges it would have been easy for them to keep track of depth using pressure - someone could have just made a table that could have been read from. __________________ Peace is good... Freedom is BETTER!