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Topic: Impossible Engineering

Posted By: SaltiDawg
Subject: Impossible Engineering
Date Posted: 04 May 2016 at 12:46pm

Impossible Engineering is a weekly Program on The Science Channel. Different Engineering topic each week.

Impossible Engineering, Episode 14, US Navy's Super Submarine is a one-hour episode chronicling the SSN-21 from the birth of submarines to the present. It aired last Wednesday, but I see it will be re-run on the Science Channel on May11th at 1800 EDT.

I found the episode to be highly informative. I usually end up spotting mistakes (But no longer post about them here. lol) but found this episode to very accurate.

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Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 04 May 2016 at 4:41pm

I watched that show recently and found it entertaining. I can see a lot had changed at EB since the 60s. I never realized they built the class in modules with slip in infrastructure.

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Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 04 May 2016 at 5:02pm

Tom McNulty wrote:

I watched that show recently and found it entertaining. I can see a lot had changed at EB since the 60s. I never realized they built the class in modules with slip in infrastructure.

I see Wayne Magro has been replaced by a woman as Ship's Manager. Wacko

The 688s were built in sections and moved out and floated off... I rode the 674 Down the Building Ways at Launch. My Grandfather had been a Ship's Carpenter on wooded ships. He was brought back at Bath, ME, during the War to be The Launching Foreman. The launch of a ship/boat down a building way is one of the most dangerous and terrifying things I have observed.

Posted By: Runner485
Date Posted: 05 May 2016 at 7:49am

I watched that show the nite before last. Very interesting, especially from a non-nuke perspective like myself. They showed many of the boats systems, ie: the stills and how they make fresh water from salt water. How they get steam from the reactor for propulsion. It seems to me that you have to be and have a scientific mind to serve on the new Virginia class boats. Much more so then, the diesels I served on...

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