And this is why {hashtag|\#|Submarines} need to bring back Fairwater Planes. Besides quickly knowing when you broach, they are great for swim calls!! #|bringbackfwp US Navy Build Submarines Naval Submarine League United States Submarine Veterans #veterans #veteransupport #veteranshelpingveterans
Was there a Lifeguard?? 🤔 And every sailors/submariners were accounted for during this R&R activities? Who was counting? Watch Officer? 🤔
It funny looking back I did this in Bass Strait Australia in the nude but after I did it the vessel took of and left me there treading water for 30 minutes they thought it was quite a joke and actually I did too they did come back and get me.
When I was the CSS-16 HM riding the USS PENNSYLVANIA, the CO was first off the FWP. This came across the 1MC. "PENNSYLVANIA departing" followed a couple minutes later by "PENNSYLVANIA...returning" I LMAO
Had one off USS Bremerton when I was XO, off coast Australia had the seal in raft on look out for sea snakes killed a few crew had a great time.
I thought they actually were
Had a swim call and cookout every patrol! Submarines forever! 🙌🏻🙌🏻
What, no lifeguard on duty?
Best off a Skipjack Class boat !!
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2moJumpimg off the fairwater planes in 1988 in the caribbean was such a surreal experience for a nuke electrician, cannot adequately describe the vastness, the unknowable depth below us, the “sea” we rarely got to see. Was an absolute blast #SSN614