To all my claustrophobia inclined friends....imagine this little scenario

TJF · Apr 27, 2014

LittleChief said: ↑

I'm not claustrophobic at all, but my wife is. She wasn't always that way. She was an Engineman in the Navy (think diesel mechanic with other various duties). One of her earlier duty stations was a tender, the USS McKee. My wife was part of a maintenance team that was sent aboard a sub to work on some systems. She had to go into the sonar array to "gas free" the space before some work was done. In order to get to this space she had to crawl through a tube, something like Tim's culvert above.

There was a watch posted outside the access hatch going into this tube while she was in there. Well, there was supposed to be - the watch had walked away. As my wife started crawling back out the tube someone came across the open hatch. Since there wasn't a watch there that person shut the access hatch and turned the lights off. This isn't like turning the lights off in a house. You turn the lights off inside a ship or a sub and it's pitch black. No light what-so-ever. She said she absolutely freaked out.

She managed to crawl to the hatch, but she couldn't see and didn't know how to open it. No-one could hear her screaming. She finally managed to gather her wits somewhat, grab a wrench and start banging on the hatch, screaming the entire time. Finally someone went to figure out where that annoying noise was coming from and opened the hatch.

Now, even all these years later, she can't even stand to have the covers pulled over her head.
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That would not be fun at all. I bet most would freak out in a situation like that.

Tim

To all my claustrophobia inclined friends....imagine this little scenario

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