Submarine trip report part 3, final page

[tw]

Originally Posted by chrisinhouston

On the second to last day as we made our approach up the coast of Washington, the sub did several interesting maneuvers. They did a deep dive which I am only authorized to say was to 700 feet below the surface but you can venture a guess that we were a bit deeper!

Were you 'authorized' to know how deep you dove?

What is the draft (how deep must the channel be) of a Trident boat (or is it still called a boat)?

[chrisinhouston]

Originally Posted by tw

Were you 'authorized' to know how deep you dove?

What is the draft (how deep must the channel be) of a Trident boat (or is it still called a boat)?

Well, they asked us not to tell the exact depth but all I will say is it wasn't deeper then 1000! Now they may have to kill me for mentioning that!

Ohio Class Sub features:
Length: 560 ft
Beam: 42 ft
Missile Tubes: 24
Draft: 36.5 ft
Displacement Submerged: 18,750 tons
Speed: 20+ knots

[chrisinhouston]

Oh and it is like the movies... at the really deep depths you can hear things creaking. One of the things they sometimes do is to dive really deep and tie a string between the inside of the sub, port to starboard and when they come up near the surface the string pops and breaks. That's something when you consider they have a 5 inch thick steel hull!