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Submarine escape training, and a classic sub (photos)

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Global CIO: Remembering My Dad, The Greatest Guy I’ve Ever Known

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They call this the most advanced submarine ever launched said the captain as he was giving me a guided tour of the ship.

This is your bunk which you will share with two others throughout our time at sea. Make sure you make peace with them and don’t leave any crumbs on the blankets when you leave. Aye Aye I replied.

We spend the next month out at sea running drills. We do the typical war games and play hide and seek with other subs. We always win. How could we not. This truly was the most cutting-edge submarine ever launched.

During the days when we run on top we often drag a skier behind us. The captain doesn’t mind. Let the troops have their fun he says. When the real deal comes they won’t have this kind of opportunity.

The Hunt for Red October features a sub with a caterpillar unit which lets the sub cruise through the water without making a sound. Or so they thought.

We got nukes. No sound. Nothing. No bull. We glide silently, effortlessly through the water. Not a sound. Not a baffle. Nothing. Nada. Zip.

This is to much I think.

I awake unexpectedly early in the morning to shouting. I walk down to find several of the men huddled around the periscope screen. What’s going on I ask. The men look up unexpectedly. We didn’t expect an officer to walk in on this one man replies. I ask again. What’s going on.

Well, you see we’re out in international waters stammers one of the men. And… I ask. And that means that we can do this legally here, now, he says.

What, I ask.

Well, since you have to know we have an Internet connection that we patch into the periscope panel and that allows us to gamble online. This is truly the most advanced submarine ever launched I think. One of you is now officially on guard duty I growl, and grin.