Never served on a diesel electric. they didn't have medical officers. Polaris had medical officers had medical officers since if they surfaced their targets had to covered by aircraft. Who knows about the fish we didn't carry an icthiologist. As far as Rickover--no but every nuke medicine chest...
With the life of a proton exceeding 10 to the 34 years and the electron even greater why can't we assume the universe is eternal and the big bang a fluctuation in that duration? Its no more difficult to consider an eternal universe as it is a finite one with nothing coming before as it seems...
I never found, as the medical officer, any severe mental problems. Interestingly for such close quarters there weren't any fights. By providing excellent ( for the military) food and flexibility in eating helped considerably. We had at least one movie per day. Our tour was 56 days submerged. The...
I have been in a submarine at 300 feet with a state seven sea above us off the coast of northern Norway. The ship was rolling so much that the captain called the bridge and ordered the ship to 400 feet "to keep the soup from slopping" at dinner. (1968)