Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "How to Fight Fire or Flooding on a Nuclear Submarine - Smarter Every Day 244" video.

When a US sub goes to alert status do they 'sound general quarters' as they do on your surface ships? I heard somewhere that US subs 'sound action stations' like we do in the Royal Navy but you only use it on your submarines. In the UK we were originally general quarters for both, then it changed to 'sound battle stations' around the first world war and today it's "sound action stations".
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@googleaccount4159 The cameras likely had the battery switched out by whoever set up the drill. The key to a drill is to throw the crew a curveball - you will never be fighting a crisis on a submarine in ideal conditions and improvisation is something you must get used to.
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@googleaccount4159 If your sub has just been hit by a torpedo do you think there would only be a single crisis and then it's all fine and dandy again? Your first crisis is making the boat safe by sealing compartments. Your second crisis is stabilising the boat so that it doesn't drop below crush depth. Your third crisis is restoring main power so the boat can maneuvre. Your fourth crisis, etc, etc, Do you think when USS Essex was crippled by a kamikaze pilot in WW2 that that was the end of their troubles?
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@googleaccount4159 You completely missed my point, dude. If you have spent 8 hours putting out fires then your fire extinguishers WOULD be empty. Just as if you had spent 8 hours hunting fires behind bulkheads your thermal camera batteries WOULD be dead. A stricken sub or ship has finite supplies of everything and once they are gone they are gone, then it's time to improvise.
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That was the Typhoons, they had three of them built throughout the 80's but the end of the cold war made them obsolete so they cancelled the rest and mothballed two of them - they still have the last one in operation though. The submarine in The Hunt for Red October was a Typhoon, since the movie was made just before the cold war ended they had no way of knowing what the inside of one looked like but they did get the dimensions correct and the sub was incredibly spacious compared to western subs.
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Control is the name of the compartment the captain and senior officers are in, it's similar to the bridge on a surface ship.
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"They call him the Vilnius schooner!"
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The US has lost two nuclear submarines. The Russians might have played fast and loose with their designs (mainly to catch up with the US) but you sound like the US is infallible, it is not, USS Thresher and USS Scorpion are testament to that.
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@oriontherealironman I agree with that. Sadly submarines, like any industry, benefit from the tragedies that come before and the experience makes them safer.
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