That was one wimpy washdown. Those guys are gonna cook. Basically this film was the equivalent of the mommy hatch on a submarine: “Look mom, thats the hatch we use to get out if something goes wrong.” The reality is that like the responders at Chernobyl and the twin towers, you assume you are already dead and just do what you have to to save as many as possible. Bridge crew and engineroom/boiler operators stay on watch and locked down and the on duty personnel are not relieved. They can’t be buttoned up, so they are sacrificed. Such was my training in 1980. Strangely enough, my training used the classified version of this same film. Guess they didn’t see any point in updating because nobody believed it anyway.
A sanitized version for sure. Most likely if a nuke explodes within sight of a ship, the crew on that ship would be doomed no matter what steps they took. It seems this video would more likely apply if a nuke exploded at-some-large-distance from the ship. In that case, they would have warning and could take steps to protect themselves from the fallout cloud.
That was one wimpy washdown. Those guys are gonna cook.
Basically this film was the equivalent of the mommy hatch on a submarine: “Look mom, thats the hatch we use to get out if something goes wrong.”
The reality is that like the responders at Chernobyl and the twin towers, you assume you are already dead and just do what you have to to save as many as possible.
Bridge crew and engineroom/boiler operators stay on watch and locked down and the on duty personnel are not relieved. They can’t be buttoned up, so they are sacrificed. Such was my training in 1980. Strangely enough, my training used the classified version of this same film. Guess they didn’t see any point in updating because nobody believed it anyway.
A sanitized version for sure. Most likely if a nuke explodes within sight of a ship, the crew on that ship would be doomed no matter what steps they took.
It seems this video would more likely apply if a nuke exploded at-some-large-distance from the ship. In that case, they would have warning and could take steps to protect themselves from the fallout cloud.
That was a very geriatric crew
2:35 it may be radioactive? I’m quite sure it definitely will be
Lol they use the word may and can a little liberally but for sure
I see they did show one Black guy on the crew; a slight hint of the move toward racial diversity in the Navy. Not bad for the time period.
Yes, good observation...Navy was more advanced than other services in terms of integration.
All other parts of the military just doesn't add up to the US Navy.