Book on NR-1

snStarter writes "Hyman Rickover created NR-1 for a variety of purposes, one of which included doing science from a nuclear-powered vessel capable of sustained deep operations. Back in the '70s I really wanted to be on the crew of this puppy but all crew members were required to qualify as second class divers and that was hopeless for me. A new book, and web site, discusses NR-1 and is the most complete information on the boat I've seen in one place."

Comments

Creepy...

[peterb]

It must take a very special sort of soldier to submit to the claustrophobic surroundings and lack of freedom inherent in being in a submarine. I can only wonder what that's like when you're in a submarine that nobody knows about.

Watching Das Boot was as close as I ever want to get to that.

Re:Creepy...

[Deadstick]

They seem to get it together somehow. A good illustration is to watch aircraft being parked as they land on an aircraft carrier. When a highly trained Annapolis officer taxis an airplane toward the edge of a wet, rolling deck until he's about 10 feet out over the water and looks back for a 19-year-old kid to tell him with hand gestures when to turn, he seems to be showing a certain confidence.

rj

And the rest of the story ---

[Bork]

And if you want the rest of the story of the US Submarine operations that we could not talk about, read Blind Mans Bluff.

Its the the book that allowed me explane what I did while in the Navy but could not tell her.

SS

Re:First "Underway on nuclear power" post.

[vegetablespork]

If you're intelligent enough to be that far above the process, you're certainly intelligent enough to have done your research before volunteering for submarine duty, no? And once there, honorable enough to have honored your commitment to serve and aware enough to realize that lots of it is bullshit (as in life darned near anywhere), and to just deal?