must be hard to get used to - so cramped and so many things

to hit your damned head on if you're not careful. All of us in my

group of visitors came away wishing they would have passed out

hard hats!!! Yes Mandrake we do have submarines up here - we bought

four from the British and spent a ton of cash refurbishing them.

Apparently for every 18 months of active duty, 6 months of refit time is recommended

for repairs and maintenance, and that maintenance is very costly.

Dale.

Four?.... You did say four?  Our ally to the north has four.

Who knew?

That's a great experience to be in a submarine...

Everything inside the submarine looks compact and yet highly advanced,...

Great set of shots and thanks for sharing the inside view of a submarine..

submarines. They are not new, they are not nuclear, and they

cost a lot to maintain. The lighting is bad, the sleeping conditions

are ridiculous and the toilets (heads/sink areas) are not much bigger

than a large closet. Hopefully these few pics will give some idea of what

conditions are like for those who choose this as a career.

The 5th pic shows the periscope and the last pic was taken looking from

the front cap of a torpedo (blue/grey object on left). I took a lot of shots

and this is a small sampling of what we saw.