63 days submerged was my longest run between surfacing. Before women in subs it was a locker room mentality so boredom led to stupid stunts and jokes. Frat boy crap like duct taping someone to the overhead. Fight club. Beauty contests in bikinis (dudes). Cutting people’s belts down slowly so they think they are gaining weight. Shit like that. Hard to do? Get the poop over board without accidentally blowing it back inside. Making oxygen to breathe. Boring stuff but harder in a steel tube at 500 feet below the surface…
Discussion
👀 poo needs to be forced out under pressure and there's a failure mode that blows it back at you?! Pretty sure I'd permanently dissociate from my own body after such an event.
It's understandable that adding women would totally change the dynamic. I was Air Force and never knew a "time before women" there. So here's a social grenade of a question (you can ask these on Nostr, I think).
Did adding women to subs make subs more effective weapons of war or is it a failed social experiment? It sounds like it made things more civilized on the subs but does that make for better war fighters?