New Escape Trainer
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Topic: New Escape Trainer
Posted By: Rontini
Subject: New Escape Trainer
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 9:25am
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Posted By: Gil
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 9:49am
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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. |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 10:45am
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The old New London Escape Tower allowed ascent from 100ft. Usually, it was an escape from perhaps 37ft, but when they first used the Steinky Hood I did a 100ft ascent. That was voluntary and ot required. In my BESS class we did the chamber and the tower. The big deal in the chamber was watching our flip flops collapse to the thickness of a Saltine. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 12:50pm
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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. ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
Posted By: SaltiDawg
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 1:22pm
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During the repairs in NLON on the fire damage in the tower, one of the Nuke MM-1's on Ustafish under construction at EB won a small business Set-Aside Contract to do the pipe covering. He got his lagging material via cumshaw from EB. |
Posted By: Gil
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2016 at 5:56pm
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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. |
Posted By: bob dubois
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2016 at 2:56am
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It's been a long time, but we wore bathing suits. I think bare feet, this was in 64. The new tower in NL is a swimming pool. Not the same as the old tower. I did it twice free asent and stankie hood asent not sure how many times. ------------- Bob DuBois SK1(SS) USS Sailfish SS572 USS Sculpin SSN590 USS John Adams SSBN620(Blue) Holland Club |
Posted By: Tom McNulty
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2016 at 12:37pm
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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. ------------- SSBN599B,SSBN600B,SSBN611G USNR Beaumont, TX, USSVI Life Member Mid Atlantic Base Holland Club |
Posted By: Sewer Pipe Snipe
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2016 at 12:52pm
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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. ------------- Walt, Had I done everything right throughout my life, the World wouldn't have noticed. |
Posted By: Palm Bay Ken
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2016 at 3:37pm
I don't think styrofoam cups or flip-flops had been invented when I first went thru in '54. At least I don't remember seeing any. ------------- Ken Wiltshire K4HBE SS-206/SS-523/S1C/SSN-578/Ole Miss(NESEP)/DLG-14/SS-563/SS-567/SSN-584/CSS6/NavSafCen/ York County Public Schools/Virginia Beach City Public Schools/Retired |
Sewer Pipe Snipe wrote:Posted By: Bob Gawe
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2016 at 4:37pm
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100 feet at Groton, did it several times for fun after the first required time. Was a certified life guard when I joined and just enjoyed water. ------------- Bob Gawe |
Posted By: 610ET
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2016 at 10:59am
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50', blow and go, Sub School, Groton 5/67. |
Posted By: gcconnor1
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2016 at 2:53pm
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Did both. Blow and go and Steinke Hood. Never even got my hair wet using the hood!!!!!!!!! ------------- GC Connor EMC(SS)/LT USN Ret USS Ethan Allen(7) Holland Club WA2STJ |
Posted By: Dantini
Date Posted: 05 Jul 2016 at 3:47pm
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Does anyone else remember the pictures on the inside of the old NL Escape tank?  |