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Surfacing without air was fairly common on 580's, since the low pressure blow was engine exhaust.  If a Fairbanks can blow the mast it can easily blow tanks at a shallower depth.
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     All my boats had klaxons installed also. The Tullibee could surface on the diesel also, but that Jimmy HATED it.



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In GRAMPUS (SS523) in the mid 50's and GUDGEON (SS567) in the late 60's, the three blasts of the Klaxon was ONLY for EMERGENCY SURFACE.
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Requin SS481 Carp SS338 1962-68 3 blasts on klaxon surface surface surface on 1 MC.
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I remember if my memory works on the Sailfish SS572 we did 3 on the klaxon for surface.
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Originally posted by FTGC(SS) Lane FTGC(SS) Lane wrote:

On the four boats (three 637 and one 640) never sounded any alarm on a normal or airless surfacing. I did a lot of surfaces and dives as COW/DOOW

My memory is different than Mike's.  I remember the diving alarm on surfacing in the early 90s, but we're talking about really old grey matter now.  

Sounds like this is something that wasn't standard across the fleet or standard across boat type.
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610 combined crew in the shipyard and later 610 Blue were three blasts for every normal surface.. 

I was aboard 6/67 - 4/71.
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Originally posted by 610ET 610ET wrote:

610 combined crew in the shipyard and later 610 Blue were three blasts for every normal surface.. 

I was aboard 6/67 - 4/71.


Thanks Chris for confirming my memory.  I thought we did the 3 x (klaxon + surface announcement) thing while I was on the Edison (1963-65) but wasn't sure if I were conflating it with my Queenfish experience (1961-62), which I am sure about.
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Could it be that during 3-4 year tours on an SSBN that they had to add sounding the diving alarm three times on surfacing to jog the memories since the last surfacing so long before? Or did the off-crew leave Post It Notes?   Embarrassed


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