A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to RN's Sub Base

Background 

From HMS Astute's unfortunate series of casualty prone sea trials M.E. had offered this  Interview with grounded sub's CIVILIAN fathometer operator from October 24, 2010. The
interviewee selected the disguise shown below.

Update: January 25, 2017

HM Naval Base Clyde will become the UK’s single integrated submarine base after 2020, with all operational UK’s subs based out of Scotland.  As currently planned, Astute-class attack boats will be based there in the mid-2020s and the new Dreadnought class of deterrent subs from the early 2030s.   

The Royal Navy’s Submarine Service unveiled its new official tartan yesterday.  The tartan was commissioned to celebrate more than a century of links between the submarine service and Scotland, ahead of HM Naval Base Clyde becoming the UK’s only submarine operating base.  The official submariner tartan, is available to all qualified submariners (RN dolphins required) past and present.  Below it is modeled by a submariner.

Submarines are always silent and strange.

Submarine quote of the month: June 2015

Background ---from interviews with CO USS Texas (SSN-775) and crew

Being almost entirely cut off from the United States, it really matters what’s in the box of new DVDs when they leave port. Submarine movies are out, because the audience nitpicks the details and they see enough submarine already. When they surface, the men find they are culturally out of touch. “What do you mean Robin Williams died? There’s a Taken 3?” said Senior Chief Glamm. “The only NFL game we saw last year was the Super Bowl.”   - Rodd Wagner, Forbes, 8 June 2015, Ice Cream and Individualism.

Author Wagner, is a self-described New York Times bestselling author of books about employees’ working relationships with their leaders, managers, and each other.

If the average workplace were sealed up for a few months, chances are when the doors were reopened, inside would be a circus. Assuming there hadn’t been a mutiny, no one would want to hear another word from the CEO or the rest of the leadership. Colleagues would be at each other’s throats. No one would sign on for another stint under those conditions. Little would have been accomplished.

Quote of the Month 

"But the Navy submarine fleet creates exceptional levels of accomplishment under trying conditions. Where they succeed, they do it not because they recruit super-humans, not ultimately through military compulsion, not because they have some trick to suspend the laws of human nature, but because a long history of failures and successes taught them how to combine the elements of leadership and support that gets non-quals their dolphins and makes serving undersea an invigorating experience, even if the Norwegian ice cream must be left behind."  - Rodd Wagner


Submarines are always silent and strange.