Which Of You Has Been Inside A Submarine?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in BloggingEvery once in a while our Vizu polling widget in the middle sidebar throws out some pretty random questions, and I just encountered this gem…
What? Who would possibly want to know that?
Still, apparently 33.6% of you have actually been in a submarine.
Well, that or you’re lying.
Okay, fess up…who’s been inside a submarine? And I’m not talking about the 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea ride at Disney World.
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September 15th, 2008 at 8:50 pm
No, seriously, I and many other people, I’m sure, have been in those smaller - maybe 20 people plus 2 crew - tourist sightseeing subs that you pay way too much money to see murky underwater things in that you could see much better during a dive.
This one did go a couple hundred feet down, I think off the coast of one of the Caribbean Islands, St. Thomas if I remember correctly. I think that would suffice as a submarine trip wouldn’t it? Maybe they wanted to trick you into admitting you were a spy or someone covertly employed! Sorry, got carried away.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
I’ve been in 3.
U-505 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago.
USS Bowfin in Pearl Harbor.
USS Pampanito in San Francsico Martime Museum.
All museum pieces, all WWII vintage. Do they count?
September 15th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I’m going to pass on the obvious Submarine Races joke.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
I was going to ask if the U-505 counted….
September 15th, 2008 at 10:14 pm
I visited a diesel ‘boat’ while stationed at Mare Island (Vallejo, Caif.) in l969. Ride in one, never!
September 15th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Can I vote “I think so”?
When I was a kid, we used to ride our bikes over to Pearl Harbor. Things were a bit more lax in the 70’s, so I do remember that we got to actually go on a bunch of ships. I’m pretty sure we got over to the sub docks at least once … but I can’t say for certain.
September 16th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Yep, went aboard USS Drum which is moored along side the USS Alabama in Mobile bay. There are several retired subs pulling museum duty you can go walk through scattered around the country.
Now asking “Have you ever been aboard a commissioned submarine” would separate the bubbleheads from the tourists, if you could get them to admit to it. “Silent Service” is more than moniker to them. ;-)
September 16th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Hasn’t everone been in the U 505? (What? There are other things to do in Chicago?)
September 16th, 2008 at 10:51 am
I was inside a WWII vintage sub as a kid. “Confined quarters” doesn’t do the experience justice. I’d have gone utterly mad within a week. Man, they must’ve got to stinking. No eggs, raisins, or beans in the diet of a submariner, I bet.
September 21st, 2008 at 8:40 am
I’ve been aboard 8 or 10 or so. Spent 6 years in the Navy with four years on the USS Henry Clay Alas, it is no more. scrapped back in the 90s.