Why Living on a Submarine Sucks 🚢

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Could you live in a cramped, pressurized, under-water cylinder for several months? Here is why it sucks to live on a submarine.

A full day rotation on a submarine is 18 hours not 24! There are three, six-hour shifts of working, private time, and sleeping. It is physiologically and psychologically punishing on your body.
Submariners don’t have personal beds. They practice hot-bunking, which means that when you are out and about for your day, someone else is sleeping in your bed! There are only two showers for the entire crew, and the maximum showering time is 3-5 minutes.

The seating on the mess deck is minimal! It is where sailors eat, and only six to a dozen people at a time can sit there. Too bad if you like to nibble on your food.

And I guarantee you are not on a submarine right now. The crew are not allowed to communicate with the outside world because it can give away the sub’s stealth position to enemy.

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