Submarine Dive • U.S. Navy

Exterior and interior footage of the Pre Commissioning Unit (PCU) South Dakota (SSN-790), and a dive maneuver sequence from the control room. USS South Dakota (SSN-790) will be commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, Connecticut on February 2, 2019 as the seventeenth Virginia-class submarine to join the fleet. Filmed on November 27, 2018.
Film Credits: SSG Alexander C Henninger, SrA Jared Bunn
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[@jim6265]

man.....I miss it! Just over three years retired and it never gets old!!

[@LH-si6rd]

You can still smell the amine lol

[@amyreynolds3619]

I don't miss getting movies for the crew or doing battery charge too.

[@Creasingdrip40]

Any tips for a future submariner?

[@jim6265]

@@Creasingdrip40 qual as fast as you can, listen to your Chief and get as much college done as possible. Stay out of trouble, have a good haircut, uniform and if you aren't early you're late.

[@Creasingdrip40]

@@jim6265 thank you

[@eurekaelement833]

Love from Australia keep the pacific safe for us thank you USA!

[@HvyMetal4Ever]

Love back from the USA. Thank you for continuing to have our backs. It's deeply appreciated, Mate.

[@Manwholikestrains]

Cheers mate

[@fratercontenduntocculta8161]

Still the closest humanity will be to Star Trek. A well trained crew aboard a super advanced battleship headed out to explore an alien world. Stay safe out there guys!

[@larrymcintyre5693]

Did this for 3 and a half years. Dive of the coast of Virginia and surface 3 weeks later in the Mediterranean

[@Cr4z3d]

This, and Nuclear Power Plants.

[@Westyrulz]

And just a sheet of steal protecting you from tonnes of water or the vacuum of space.

[@submarineradioman5535]

Wow! They actually have a diving alarm that sounds something like a klaxon!

[@thegriffinstonegamers3353]

Howie WA3MCK it is a klaxon

[@timtecson9216]

Cus it is a klaxon

[@CJbrinkman602]

not authentic though, sounds like a recording.

[@submarineradioman5535]

I didn’t know that there were klaxons on nukes now. We had a sick sounding diving alarm on the Pargo 650 boat and Russell 687 boat.

[@submarineradioman5535]

CJ - I agree... it must be electronically generated - I know what a real klaxon sounds like

[@raybin6873]

These subs are so much more spacious than the WW2 ones.

[@williamallen3675]

Diesel boats forever... 😁

[@MachineHeadDissent]

How cool is this???...🤙😎🤘

[@jrident]

What a way to conduct business. Bless them.

[@RUSLexplorer2020]

Interesting ! Enjoyed a lot !

[@kellydunn2528]

A submersible hotel... I served on a 640 class SSBN 654

[@Wildwanderer99]

We had a new chief transfer from the 640 Benjamin Franklin. He would always say "back on the Franklin..." I don't care about your ustafish.

[@briangleason5597]

I Love you guy's. Thank You for Protecting America. Oorah.

[@danivanon]

0:38 - brand new sub, yet it has wood paneling from the 80s lol

[@Omega9935]

Dan Ivanov I think they have much better wood panels than Russians have, if you you want see 80s interior watch those rare videos.

[@timaahhh]

Yea I was bothered by that... I'm hoping there are some noise dampening reasons for it. If they are doing it for quieting I'm guessing the navy doesn't want to spend a lot of money so they end up with the hideous looking paneling.

[@SeaYaSailing]

It is actually an aesthetic element, seeing wood gives a calming effect, even at sea. gives the crew a touch of land.........

[@GB3770]

This is a sub - I was v surprised they had anything decorative at all... The wood you may be surprised to know is not the main point of this vehicle :)

[@Pumkin932]

@@GB3770 How could you lie to them like that. Everyone knows that the wood paneling helps keep the sub afloat in case of flooding. Higher depths depending on type of wood used. Duuhh lol

[@daddyo70056]

Damn, I miss those days.

[@Wildwanderer99]

This is new to me and I'm a submariner. I was a nuke RO so I never saw what was going on in control.

[@michaelpurviance187]

Actually, everyone understood it was called a boat, however when diving we heard on the 7mc ( and always when the scope went up) " this is the Captain in the Conn, I release you of the deck and the conn, submerge the ship.' At that point the OOD would say "clear the bridge and sound two blasts on the klaxton.." At which point I would grab the bearing circle ring and start down the hatch and head to the bow planes.

[@Wildwanderer99]

What's the 7MC? We had 1,2, and 4MC. 1 boat wide. 2 engineering. 4. emergency.

[@Wildwanderer99]

awoooooooooooooooooooooogah. awoooooooooooooooooooooooooogah

[@submarineradioman5535]

Yeah... it’s a hotel - I served on a diesel - DBF!!!

[@michaellee9975]

It's a boat,not a ship

[@alwar8081]

Ia there any sounds when going to surface?

[@billycrockett886]

Wood grain,nice

[@nic12344]

The Chief of the Watch fucked up, he forgot to say "Dive! Dive!" a second time after the two dive alarm blasts, as ordered by the Diving Officer!

[@2manycatsforadime]

was that an authentic klaxon or a real facsimile of a klaxon?

[@williamkenopke3900]

How high would the risk be standing that close to the spinning radar array?

[@ColdWarSubSailor_-]

I was wondering that myself. Over the 1MC: "Attention, attention, there are men working in the sail, do not rotate or radiate from any mast or antenna, there are men working in the sail!" But I suppose today it would be "...there are personnel working in the sail..."

[@barrybuchert1345]

Cooked, rf radiation. Probably in the GHZ frequency range.

[@AugustusTitus]

Damn high to your eyes and skin. Not so deep, but the eyes are very vulnerable.

[@xras66]

1:28 Why do you need a visor on the cap - it is very difficult to move along narrow stairways...

[@xras66]

wise and practical

[@xras66]

but what happens if run fast? think we will hear a boom sound.

[@devynwhite4265]

Hooyah

[@williamallen3675]

Wonder 🤔 what happened to all those TDU cans? Bon appetit Davy Jones

[@atomicbill]

SSBN634 SSN590

[@revejmal]

It's so odd without a COW there.

[@diggermitch1]

is this attack sub

[@ChiefBerry]

Sure is, this Virginia class is all fast attack.

[@AugustusTitus]

At least it sounds like a klaxon.

[@Tara19040]

Why do they refer to the sub as a ship? I thought submarines are boats.

[@submarineradioman5535]

Generally those of us who served on submarines refer to them as boats.

[@MrTomengle]

They dove the boat a lot faster in WWII.....

[@ColdWarSubSailor_-]

Since nuke boats spend all their time submerged while at sea, the need for the quick crash dive has gone the way if the dodo bird.

[@737CargoGuy]

It was more epic on crimson tide 😂

[@ColdWarSubSailor_-]

Crimson Tide was a joke.

[@jim6265]

🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️ I actually WAS on the 731.... Gene Hackman wasn't there, no rat-dog was there, no goldfish were there and Denzel sure in the hell wasn't running in the MC on grates that don't exist!!! Hahaha

[@dylanhill1640]

My dad gave me his fish before he passed away.

[@rickytart1028]

Since when do you say "submerge the ship, make your depth 155ft" ?? I thought it was supposed to be "submerge the boat, make your depth 155ft. Submarines were never called ships in my day. SSN 663 was a boat. Enterprise was a ship..

[@copperhead577]

They're synonymous with each other.

[@raybin6873]

I thought the same...it is not a ship.

[@davidmckamey4772]

Enterprise was a target.

[@xxxrossomaticxxx]

I really don’t get how they are so slow. Moskva sunk from slow crew, this boat if it was trying to evade would be hit already before he’s even done his slow sentence

[@aidanliefeld381]

I'm assuming an evasive dive would be much quicker than a planned dive. No need to rush things unnecessarily, and risk something happening that doesn't need to.

[@meikogranger858]

@@aidanliefeld381 exactly you’re right. Also we want to get to a certain depth without going too far, slower speed steeper angle. Submerging is the focus.

[@eagletuba9362]

Evasive crash dives aren't really a thing anymore. Modern submarines go for weeks or months at a time without surfacing, so it's not nearly as common as it was in the days of diesel-electrics that needed to surface every night to recharge batteries.

[@Jake22419]

Crew looks miserable

[@karebear4485]

I wonder how much honey i could fit on one of these…

[@kaiserrex9506]

Virginia >>>>> LA

[@jim6265]

Sign of the times....637s were being decommed when i came in and that was my same thoughts about the 88s. Fast forward 30 years and it's still relevant. Except I did do TSRAs on a few VAs and I'd be happy to be on one. Not impressed with the bunk areas tho.