Three Blasts on Diving Alarm

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   I can see you nucs are confused. I can understand that, since you only surfaced once in a while and more than likely forgot how to do it, so it probably didn't matter how you did it. Generally, smokeboats surfaced every night to charge our batteries, so we remembered how to do it or we would snorkel. That's almost surfacing. 

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Runner485 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List BBS Supporter Joined: 16 Dec 2015 Location: Delaware Status: Offline Points: 3199	Post Options Post Reply Quote Runner485 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 5:04am
	I can see you nucs are confused. I can understand that, since you only surfaced once in a while and more than likely forgot how to do it, so it probably didn't matter how you did it. Generally, smokeboats surfaced every night to charge our batteries, so we remembered how to do it or we would snorkel. That's almost surfacing.
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Dr. Stan Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Rickover Joined: 04 Jan 2016 Location: Sevierville, TN Status: Offline Points: 7455	Post Options Post Reply Quote Dr. Stan Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Feb 2016 at 3:13pm
	When I was on the Queenfish (SS-393) I would have been on either the bow or stern planes when we surfaced. When we surfaced on the nukes I would have been found either in the crews mess or AMR2 sipping coffee in the throes of channel fever because surfacing meant we were coming in off of patrol and were nearing the Firth of Clyde. And somebody was going to enjoy liberty at the rag hat club in Ardnadam, or in Dunoon, that night. So, no matter what was said in Control during a surface maneuver I wasn't there to hear it. I heard only what came over the 1MC. And the klaxon, of course.
	It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.~Abe Lincoln SS-393, SSBN-610(B), SSBN-624(G), SSN-591 USSVI Life Member; Holland Club; Plank Owner, Smoky Mtn. Base

610ET Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Rickover Joined: 04 Jan 2016 Location: Fort Lauderdale Status: Offline Points: 2186	Post Options Post Reply Quote 610ET Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Feb 2016 at 9:46am
	I spoke with my dad about this. He said that all of his boats sounded the Klaxon three times before surfacing. Over the course of his 30 year career he was on multiple boats. He was a plankowner on Tirante and made her war patrols. After the war he was on Greenfish, Grouper, Burrfish, Barb and Odax. In 1958 he was in the first group of SCPO/MCPO promotes. In 1959 he went to the pre-commissioning crew of SSBN 598 as QMCS(SS) and then COB. He left in 1960 when he was promoted to LDO Ensign. After 1960 he was not on another submarine so his reference time is 1943-1960. The remainder of his career was to assignments to recommission Proteus and commission Canopus along with two tours at Subschool, Groton. He retired as a LCDR in 1973. Dad is now 90 but still sharp.

GaryKC Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Rickover Joined: 16 Dec 2015 Location: Kansas City, MO Status: Offline Points: 3028	Post Options Post Reply Quote GaryKC Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Feb 2016 at 10:17am
	Fine kettle of fish you've gotten us into. Seems all those who swear the klaxon sounded 3 times before surfacing...every time.....didn't have ANY klaxon alarm soundings for an EMERGENCY SURFACE????
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Guests Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Guest Group	Post Options Post Reply Quote Guests Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Feb 2016 at 11:54am
	Huh? Every surface was handled like an Emergency Surface. Then if we really needed to do one we knew how. AtoZ

FTGC(SS) Lane Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Old Salt Joined: 05 Jan 2016 Location: Conway New Hamp Status: Offline Points: 262	Post Options Post Reply Quote FTGC(SS) Lane Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Feb 2016 at 12:47pm
	What have we learned? Sometime before Jan 1971 Subscol started teaching that 3 blasts of diving alarm was for emergency surface (Subscol taught 640 class at that time). Based on the SSORMs prior to May 1971 west coast 637 class boats and by March 1974 east coast 640 class boats were not sounding three blasts for normal surfacing. Can everyone accept that?