r/interestingasfuck • u/ThugLeeVoguee • 1d ago

The implosion of the Titan submarine (OceanGate) was so rapid that the pain wasn't even registered by the brain. They didn't feel anything at all. Utterly instantaneous.

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u/Fulcrum58 1d ago

Served on a submarine. The access hatches had an upper and lower watertight hatch, and the space between was designed to be free flooded for us to use submarine escape suits in. One of the tests we did was opening the upper hatch and flooding it at depth, leaving only the lower hatch to stop the sea pressure from getting inside. Even at wayyyy shallower depths than the titan, the A gang chief told me that if that hatch fails we’d be all dead within a second.

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u/Chemical-Elk-1299 1d ago

“Man why doesn’t anyone want to reenlist for another tour on the recirculated underwater fart and instant death tube?”

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u/Fulcrum58 1d ago edited 23h ago

Honestly all thoughts of re enlisting went out the window when the standard was getting extended for an extra patrol when you re enlist

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u/GamingVision 1d ago

When I was a teenager I thought I wanted a career as a submariner…instant death is one thing but realizing the size of those those coffins/bunks and dudes wackin’ it around me was a a big ol “maybe I’ll do finance instead”.

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u/Fulcrum58 23h ago

To be fair my bunk mates kept it pretty quiet while stroking

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u/rctmanh 14h ago

Yea we don’t want to be rude! Gotta fap nice and quietly, maybe just a whisper of a whimper when peaking

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u/shlongshot 12h ago

The important thing is that everyone else knows the rules. Shut the fuck up while I’m doing it or it’s gonna take longer.

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u/BlainethePayne 7h ago

Mmmm, it's the opposite for me

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u/BigXthaPugg 2h ago

Whenever I see rack curtains rocking I always reach in to see if a shipmate needs a hand 😎

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u/HoboKillah 11h ago

real gentlemen.

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u/TheLastPrinceOfJurai 10h ago

Silent but sexy?

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u/serabine 16h ago

Look up "hot racking" or "hot bunking". You might have gotten to lie where your crewmate walked it.

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u/CivilEngMusicBoy 12h ago

The fact that you gave yourself two choices: submariner or finance bro is hilarious

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u/Wolff_Hound 10h ago

You can navigate a lawless, hostile waters full of ruthless sharks and foreign enemies... or you can serve in the Navy.

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u/DrunkHamsterParty 13h ago

Do you like films about gladiators?

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u/JonathanRL 11h ago

There was an guy on social media who made content about life on a deterrence patrol submarine. I think what bothered me the most was how there was absolutely no way out of it. Once the patrol starts, that is where you will be for the next few months.

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u/Doorframepain 13h ago

As a tall man when the recruiters told me I could be a nuke on a sub is about when I lost interest in that vocation.

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u/BlueEyedSoul2 9h ago

Same thing. I wanted to do meteorology. They could have used me, but they said I would be sent to nuke given my background (AP math and science).

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u/Doorframepain 9h ago

Yeah same and had top ASVAB scores