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I went in the German subs at Chicago's Science & industry museum.

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In Reply to: Re: "Das Boot" I toured a WWII sub in San Francisco harbor- posted by EdM on February 28, 2006 at 14:47:54:

Remeber that scene when one of the sub crewman went under the floor on the trolly back to the batteries while water was collecting on the bottom of the sub?
After watching that and seeing first hand that trolly and it's location
sure gave me terrific respect for those sailors.
What brazen merve they must of had.
I could of never done that.
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Re: I went in the German subs at Chicago's Science & industry museum. - Rob Doorack 13:44:58 03/10/06 (0)
When I toured that sub the guide noted that the conditions aboard a U-Boat on patrol were hideous. The temperature inside the sub was well over 100 degrees, and the crew - if they were lucky - got one brief salt water shower in a combat patrol. The crew was allowed one change of clothing, and three sailors shared each bunk, sleeping in shifts. When the sub went to sea it had fresh food crammmed into or hanging from very available nook and cranny. However after that food was used up in a few weeks the diet consisted of mostly tinned meat and sauerkraut. The sub had flush toilets but they didn't work at depths greater than a few meters, so the empty food cans were used to store waste until it could be dumped overboard when the sub was surfaced. The stench of those accumulated cans combined with the inevitable noxious gasses emitted by a crew subsisting on spam and sauerkraut meant that the air inside a sub smelled vile. And this was considered elite duty!
Batteries - JDK 17:26:49 02/28/06 (1)
I worked on our RAN Oberon Class diesel/electric subs (1960's vintage). I did several stints under the floor in the battery compartment and I can tell you that it was scary even when tied up at the wharf. No metal was allowed - no belt buckles, pens, rings, watches, coins. You would be fried to a pretzel if you shorted out those cells. I think they ran about 400vdc with peak current of hundreds of amps.

Cheers,
John K
- Yeeoooow - GTF 17:30:59 02/28/06 (0)
  Thanks for the info.
  I'd rather have another hole drilled through my skull
  then go under that floor. :-)
  GTF

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