Me, North Pole 1992
Me, North Pole 1992
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_coffee_10,055 赞2018/12/2
So.... you were posted on a sub then you posted on a sub? Way to rise to the occasion, breaking the ice like that.
KiloWatson3,755 赞2018/12/2
Solid.
disterb880 赞2018/12/2
liquid (when melted)
dev11n_riley322 赞2018/12/2
Vapor (when evaporated or vaped)
Finna_Keep_It_Civil239 赞2018/12/2
Stupor (when paired with too much nice whiskey)
relayrider189 赞2018/12/2
Plasma (when donating)
jollyboom46 赞2018/12/2
Shaka (when the walls fell)
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Darmok at Tanagra
flunky_the_majestic75 赞2018/12/2
sublimated
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Bose-Einstein Condensate.
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Fluffy_Tigrex31 赞2018/12/2
SNAAAAAAKE!!!
Lepthesr38 赞2018/12/2
Fuck, save some for the rest of us.
VideoGameBody77 赞2018/12/2
All of the puns? You're a monster.
4,747 赞2018/12/2
OY you can't park that thing there.
795 赞2018/12/2
*punches your horse*
305 赞2018/12/2
Oops, wrong sub.
75 赞2018/12/2
Oooh, what’s the right sub?
220 赞2018/12/2
cheese steak on italian herbs and cheese
18 赞2018/12/2
On Italian herbs and cheese? As a Philadelphian, dafuq? The right response was an Italian Hoagie.
18 赞2018/12/2
as a Californian/Coloradon, the right response is definitely anything with herbs
30 赞2018/12/2
How dare you
82 赞2018/12/2
OP has never returned to the North Pole due to an accidental $1500 bounty on him
114 赞2018/12/2
U got a loicense for that submarine mate?
3,098 赞2018/12/2
Is it hard for a sub to bust through the ice like that?
3,769 赞2018/12/2
No. It rests against the ice and then blows all tanks and the positive buoyancy and weight of the sub does the rest.
954 赞2018/12/2
Oh...I gotta find video of that! It sounds cool...
722 赞2018/12/2
I feel like that would be a pretty damn hard shot to get. Like who in the hell is gonna stand on top of the ice as a sub busts through it. I mean you could use a drone but who is gonna get the drone out there.
308 赞2018/12/2
Well it exists. Not as impressive as I had hoped but oh well
593 赞2018/12/2
Does it exist like my girlfriend exists? Or can other people see it too?
374 赞2018/12/2
That video goes to another school man, you wouldn’t know it
107 赞2018/12/2
That video is Canadian man
45 赞2018/12/2
This “Canadian man”, is he some kind of superhero?
29 赞2018/12/2
Nah that's Captain Canuck
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137 赞2018/12/2
Post a link, don't just leave us hanging!
37 赞2018/12/2
Ok cool we’ll all just take your word for it and go on with our lives. Post the link you turnip!
19 赞2018/12/2
Not for the seal minding his own business on the ice
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236 赞2018/12/2
Ha! I wish. That would break everything.
43 赞2018/12/2
even the ice!?!?
32 赞2018/12/2
Especially the ice. But especially the sub.
74 赞2018/12/2
Slightly off-topic question: when a sub releases all its ballast water, what does it fill the ballast tanks with? Compressed air that it carries in pressurized tanks? Does that mean it has to periodically surface to refill its air tanks?
58 赞2018/12/2
The ship carries on-board high pressure air compressors and uses them when submerged for extended periods. It is possible for the boat to come up to periscope depth and use the snorkel mast to ventilate which is another means of introducing air into the boat. The normal way is to use oxygen generators which uses electrolysis to separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms from water molecules. It's pretty neat.
36 赞2018/12/2
Theoretically, the only thing a sub needs to surface for is food, and psychological damage.
32 赞2018/12/2
On most subs the majority of the crew doesn't go topside during an under-way - only the line handling crew and the small boat transfer crew - if there's a small boat transfer or the sub is getting a freshpack (food supplement.) US boats don't replenish supply at sea beyond that, so in between port and on mission, there's only a handful of sailors (mostly officers) that would be up on the sail if they surfaced. I don't know if its the same now, but "steel beach" (swim call) was never officially condoned, and IIRC forbidden for quite a long time.
104 赞2018/12/2
For emergency surfacing there are dedicated reserve air banks. We use air banks for other things as well so we do occasionally have to recharge them but you don't surface for that, you use the snorkel mast. For normal ballast maintenance you can just pump water overboard, the tanks the water would be in are vented to the interior atmosphere which is plenty sufficient for all ballast tank levels, so you don't even need the air banks. For normal surfacing we do use a dedicated "air pump" (moving air from the snorkel) to fully empty the ballast tanks though.
72 赞2018/12/2
The boat has to have the right kind of fairwater planes to break through the ice though. My boat did not have them so when we went to the North Pole, we had to find a hole in the ice in order to surface
44 赞2018/12/2
My boat SSN-751 didn’t have fair water planes. The sail itself was reinforced to be able to surface through ice.
27 赞2018/12/2
Gotcha. We had fairwater planes but they were fixed. You can see in the pic the planes are vertical. Ours couldn’t do that
23 赞2018/12/2
Is that a common thing, for subs to just make a jaunt up to the north pole?
58 赞2018/12/2
Fastest route to a lot of places. The only thing stopping regular shipping is the ice.
29 赞2018/12/2
We should make some gigantic container submarines.
32 赞2018/12/2
No need. Just wait a couple of decades.
25 赞2018/12/2
Decades? Ships are doing it now through part of the year.
35 赞2018/12/2
I’ve heard of many a sub sailor making the trip up North. You get your Blue Nose if you go into the Arctic Circle and also you can cheat and get the Order of Magellan pretty easily that far up north. I honestly don’t know if there is any tactical reason to go up there ( I was a nuke; all we did was push), but all of the sailors loved it. Submarine life was pretty shitty so the little things can help keep your sanity. I still have a vial of sea water from the North Pole.
17 赞2018/12/2
tactical reasons are simple: soviet's nuclear subs were stationed there, since the missile flight time to the US was short and an attack would be hard to defend against. So the US silent service had a constant presence and a lot of training went into navigating in the north and shadowing russian nuclear subs up there.
22 赞2018/12/2
No, everyone in the SUB pushes on the ceiling pretty hard at the same time and it goes through several feet of ice pretty easily. Source, use to follow Edit: do you have any reason to live anymore?
1,507 赞2018/12/2
Natural career progression was paper sales.
433 赞2018/12/2
from sailing under the ocean to selling at Dunder Mifflin
174 赞2018/12/2
Limitless paper, in a paperless world
82 赞2018/12/2
Bears. Beets. Battle Sub at the North Pole Edit: Battle Sub Antarctica would have fit better, but that's the wrong pole
18 赞2018/12/2
What does the sign in the background of your photo say?
968 赞2018/12/2
How very cool! Dumb question time...was it magnetic North Pole or "top of the world" North Pole?
1,025 赞2018/12/2
Magnetic
286 赞2018/12/2
Always wondered what does a compass do there? Is the 1 point so small you can litterly walk around it and the point stays right at N? Or does it cover a wide area that would take a lot to go from on side being north to another side being north the other way?
345 赞2018/12/2
Interestingly the magnet field lines are near vertical at the magnetic North Pole, vs mostly horizontal once you get distance from the poles. Magnetic lines don’t follow the earth exactly, they instead arch to meet up at the poles. Magnetic compasses become extremely unreliable when you get anywhere even remotely close to the magnetic North Pole. I pilot helicopters in the high Canadian Arctic, and the unreliability is something we need to be well aware of. Up there, all references (runway directions, instrument approaches, etc) are aligned to True heading (north being the geographic North Pole), where in the south these are all aligned to magnetic heading.
72 赞2018/12/2
About how far north do these changes come into effect? Is there a line, or is it every airport north of Yellowknife?
69 赞2018/12/2
Usually above 60 to 70 degrees north or south it’s not worth using a compass to navigate.
27 赞2018/12/2
Most of Norway is between 60 and 70 degrees north.
19 赞2018/12/2
Wow, that's further south than I imagined. I thought it would maybe be around 85° where compasses get unreliable. I mean a lot of people live between 60-70° north (nearly all of Scandinavia).
32 赞2018/12/2
Wow that is a really interesting question! I would also like to know the answer to that one.
49 赞2018/12/2
If your compass was free to point downwards, it would do so.
917 赞2018/12/2
How do submarines know when the ice is thin enough for them to just punch through with their conning tower?
1,172 赞2018/12/2
Sonar. All periscopes and antennas are stowed when surfacing.
134 赞2018/12/2
I’m guessing Spadefish was a Sturgeon-class boat, from the way the fairwater planes are turned up?
144 赞2018/12/2
Correct. SSN668
85 赞2018/12/2
Your not supposed to publicize or social security number. That's how you get identity thefted
38 赞2018/12/2
That's one seriously old dude only 3 numbers in his social security
41 赞2018/12/2
Identity theft is not a joke, Jim.
46 赞2018/12/2
This guy submarines.
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226 赞2018/12/2
Anyway how is your sex life
100 赞2018/12/2
Yes
54 赞2018/12/2
Nice.
24 赞2018/12/2
There are some things you can talk about. I’m from the PNW, and we are right next to sub base Bangor. They have some really cool exhibits on the various subs dating back to WW2 and earlier, including as much information on current day subs they are allowed to share.
46 赞2018/12/2
Maybe it’s Maybelline
877 赞2018/12/2
Santa and his damn throwbacks
52 赞2018/12/2
Those were some crazy times...
759 赞2018/12/2
SUBMARINE ! Hell ya shipmate! What boat were you on ? I was a TM2 on the San Juan
697 赞2018/12/2
Spadefish SSN 668! FT2
427 赞2018/12/2
Right on. Nuke MM here. I was on the Los Angeles (SSN-688). Sadly we were not built for Arctic ops. Our fairwater planes couldn’t go vertical.
896 赞2018/12/2
Hey! I commanded the Los Angeles through the Atlantic Campaign of the video game Red Storm Rising back in 1993. I defeated the Soviets about 50 times. Small world, bumping into you on Reddit!
430 赞2018/12/2
At first I was like 0_0. Then I was like, 0_o
84 赞2018/12/2
That's funny, because I was like 乁( ◔ ౪◔)ㄏ
18 赞2018/12/2
Tastes like I licked a 9 volt battery, bro
49 赞2018/12/2
For a half a second I was really impressed....
37 赞2018/12/2
Hey! I read the novelization of Tom Clancy's SSN that one time. We should have drinks.
194 赞2018/12/2
That's a shame. My sub, the 12in Marinara Meatball with Pepperjack Cheese, wasn't built for Arctic ops neither.
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137 赞2018/12/2
It’s because November just ended
41 赞2018/12/2
Fucking lol
44 赞2018/12/2
> SSN 668 The contract to build Spadefish was awarded to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia, on 9 March 1965 and her keel was laid down there on 21 December 1966. She was launched on 15 May 1968, sponsored by Mrs. Charles T. Booth, and commissioned on 14 August 1969 with Lieutenant Commander George M. Henson in command. Spadefish operated in the Arctic on an ICEX in 1992 under the command of Commander R. B. Williams. was that your deployment?
35 赞2018/12/2
Hell yeah! Cheers from Iraq
84 赞2018/12/2
No way! I was a nuke MM on the San Juan!! When were you on?
48 赞2018/12/2
My dad was CSC of the San Juan 2006-2009
132 赞2018/12/2
Holy shit I knew him! I can't remember his name, it's been so long, but i was on from early '05 to April '07. Ask him if he remembers a nuke MM that went to mast and was transferred. E- Yep, remembered me. Gotta be one of the coolest things that's happened to me on reddit.
83 赞2018/12/2
> went to mast yeah, he'll remember you
52 赞2018/12/2
Yeah, especially what it was for. I honestly wasn't really that good at being in the military, and that was pretty much my last straw.
15 赞2018/12/2
Lmao
37 赞2018/12/2
> went to mast Umm. Let me guess. Did something really fucking stupid and got the modern version of keel-hauled?
52 赞2018/12/2
Yep. While on mid-watch, the guy I was relieving (my division PO) and I 'hot-swapped' (He too off the belt with the holster, handed it to me, and I put it on) the gun, rather than go through the whole procedure with the clearing barrel and all that. The next morning the Duty Chief asked who read the procedure for us (which required waking up a third party) and I couldn't lie.
28 赞2018/12/2
Which is funny because thats the way you do gun-turnover now (or at least it was when I was last in a few years ago). You just give the guy the belt with the gun and then sign in/out of the log. They had too many incidents doing it the other way (with the barrel, etc)
33 赞2018/12/2
I just got out this past July. It is exactly how they do watch turnover. The TM's only swapped guns during duty section turnover. The fact a dude went to mast for something like that just screams all the reasons I GTFO. Never again
16 赞2018/12/2
Sent a DM
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What an absolute wild ride this chain has been
23 赞2018/12/2
MM1 nuke here, Annapolis SSN 760 2006-2010
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EM1 on the Oklahoma City here. ‘99-‘06
17 赞2018/12/2
Dude, nuke MM2 from the San Juan here. ‘97-‘01.
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ET2 (SS/DV) here! Bates and Finback
265 赞2018/12/2
Any evidence of a hollow earth?
639 赞2018/12/2
Classified.
117 赞2018/12/2
Lol! This comment will make some people crazy! well, crazier!
191 赞2018/12/2
What do you do for a living
313 赞2018/12/2
Now? I work in big tech.
98 赞2018/12/2
And then?
344 赞2018/12/2
Smaller tech
78 赞2018/12/2
annnnd theeeeeennn?
19 赞2018/12/2
Beat me to it.
30 赞2018/12/2
andthenandthenandthenandthen!!
175 赞2018/12/2
That's not the North pole, there's not even any elves in this picture!
22 赞2018/12/2
I live in North Pole Alaska, and I don't see Santa's Workshop or the McDonald's!
161 赞2018/12/2
I've always wondered what it's like in a submarine when the water outside is so fucking cold. Does the cold transfer a bit into the sub or are they designed to be super insulated and have some kind of heating? General curiosity I know nothing of how submarines even work.
227 赞2018/12/2
There is heating but still cold upfront. Hot as hell in the engineering spaces.
58 赞2018/12/2
“If he can get to the engineering spaces, he can get to somewhere more critical.”
20 赞2018/12/2
It was the cook!
29 赞2018/12/2
The best part of being in cold ass seawater is all the water freezes in the bilges so you don’t have to clean it up after watch!
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One ping only.
63 赞2018/12/2
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
33 赞2018/12/2
pleashe.
24 赞2018/12/2
I would have liked to have seen Montana
42 赞2018/12/2
"Some things in here don't react well to bullets..." "Right..."
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*bulletsh
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I reckon getting there by tricycle would be a lot harder.
94 赞2018/12/2
SUBMARINES ONCE! MMN2(SS), USS Santa Fe, 2014-2018
55 赞2018/12/2
Awesome!
15 赞2018/12/2
SUBMARINES TWICE!
91 赞2018/12/2
DAMN!!! I must be getting old when 1992 is considered 'old school'.
64 赞2018/12/2
If you remember Clinton, you’re a dinosaur. I remember Carter....
52 赞2018/12/2
I see your Carter and raise you a Nixon...
34 赞2018/12/2
Arooooo
74 赞2018/12/2
i believe i saw that episode of x-files.
36 赞2018/12/2
Thank GOD I wasn't the only one! Scrolled way too far for this. I want to believe.
68 赞2018/12/2
is the perfect place for this post. I’m sure it was pretty cool there.
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15 赞2018/12/2
And it's kinda old school too. I know 92 feels like just 8 years ago but it's a lot more
55 赞2018/12/2
Sweet. My dad was on your sister boat Pargo and also got to the pole. I am jealous of you both. I mean, who doesn't want to meet Santa?
32 赞2018/12/2
My Dad was not on your sister
38 赞2018/12/2
They put a goddam big black pole thing there to mark it
29 赞2018/12/2
Did you get Santa's autograph?
24 赞2018/12/2
One of my best buddies who’s an officer on the USS George W Bush now was a on a TACAMO flight crew after he got out of Annapolis. Whenever they dropped their cable to talk to you guys, they’d send the new guy with a garbage bag to collect “air samples” for Navy weather analysis.
16 赞2018/12/2
Ice Station Zebra!
15 赞2018/12/2
Wow this is actually really cool. Can we get more posts like this instead of just people posting their Oedipus complex?
12 赞2018/12/2
Did you get the Firefox refueled before the ruskies showed up?