The life in a submarine

1. 4672330-29845262445534290The life in a<br />Submarine<br />-4445957580Jose Luis tells us about his experience in the Spanish navy.<br />When I was younger I was four years in the army and I was assigned to a submarine.<br />When it was in the port you lived well because you slept in a barrack, you ate in a canteen and you only went to the submarine for work. However the sailors assigned to a ship when they were in port they went on living in it.<br />But things changed when we were sailing because life in a submarine was harder than in a ship. The sailors slept between the torpedoes, they were in the bow of the submarine. Sometimes there weren´t enough beds for every sailor and some sailors took turns to sleep in the same bed, it was a bed for two people. When you got up the other partner slept in the same bed, but each person had a sleeping bag. <br />2351405543560The submarine had only a narrow aisle and it was short, so you only walked thirty or forty metres a day. It was the only exercise that you did. A submarine isn´t a healthy place.<br />The smell in a submarine was awful, because the air could be the same for twenty-four hours. In that time the people smoked, the food smelt and there was the human smell. But when you were inside it you didn´t realize that until you got to land, you had a shower and after that when you put your clothes in a bag you realized that they smelt terrible.<br />Another bad thing was that you could be a lot of days without seeing the sun. My record was twenty-three days. When I went out I was a very ugly yellow colour, I looked ill.<br />63500140335<br />Also there were two toilets and a shower for sixty people. They were very tiny, the shower was about 50 x 50 centimetres and the toilets were about 100 x50 centimetres. For me they were the most claustrophobic places in the submarine.<br />-46355179705<br />Now I remember those moments with yearning but when I was there I spent bad moments because the life in a submarine isn’t a game. The worst thing was when we were a hundred metres under water and water started coming into the submarine and we had to come up quickly. At that moment I realized that I didn´t want to continue in the navy. <br /> Written by<br />3003552051052705735205105 Jose Luis Gomez Caja Dolphins lead the way<br />