New Escape Trainer

I think they said this tower test was at 37 feet of depth.  Never went to the tower in New London. but the tower in Pearl  was I believe capable of 50 and 100 feet surfaces, wasn't New London's at least that? 

During our Sub School at Hunters Point there was no tower, instead a group of us went into a recompression chamber at the school, when you went active duty and your boat went to Pearl or New London you scheduled your test.

The one thing I remember most vividly was standing in front of the Medical Officer after your assent and saying "I feel fine Sir" whether you did or didn't. Some of us fools went and did it again and again just to round out the groups. 

Tom,
Please refresh my addled limited memory.  You wore flip flops in the recompression chamber?  I'm thinking we would have worn our dungarees and standard footwear.  Why would that chamber have that affect on flip flops.  I remember walking into it and wondering why it was a recompression rather than a decompression chamber.  I was very  nervous, and wasn't very observant.  During our tower experience at Pearl we did 50 then had the opportunity to do 100.  I didn't like the chamber we got in to start the escape - I'd seem too many television shows where the hero had to escape death as a compartment or room was filled with water.


Edited by Gil - 03 Jul 2016 at 5:59pm

Bob was correct that we wore our swim suits in the recompression chamber. It was done the same evolution as the tower. We wore the shower shoes to go between both locations. The pressure in the chamber flattened the shower shoes. Come to think of it we did the tear gas training before changing to do blow and go.

Sewer Pipe Snipe wrote: I understand that they stopped using a styrofoam cup as a teaching aid as it's shrinking tended to frighten some. Although I had thought that is what it was originally all about, to sort out the weak.